A hundred years after the start of the Armenian Genocide, in the very zone of northern Iraq and northern Syria where Armenians were deported and massacred by Ottoman Turkish authorities, another minority population was subjected to similar atrocities, including deportation, mass slaughter, abduction, and starvation. While ISIS has persecuted a number of distinct ethnic groups, its mistreatment of the Yezidi people has been labeled a genocide by several international bodies. The condemnation of these acts is still pending in the United States Congress.