Wafaa Ali Abbas, 21, was rescued yesterday from Al-Hool camp in Syria. She is from Kocho village in Sinjar. She was kidnapped in 2014 and rescued from lsIamic State (ISIS) captivity in Al Hool camp in Syria after eight years. Wafaa is one of the girls who fell victim to ISIS on August 15, 2014. […]
The Iraqi Government Continues to Neglect the Survivors of the Yezidi Genocide
In mid-June, during a Turkish bombing raid on Sinjar in northern Iraq, a young girl ran away screaming at everyone to save her little brother. Her tears were shed in fear for her younger brother Salah, who fell victim to the Turkish air strike. Salah was a victim of the Yezidi genocide that continues to […]
Eight years later, the Yezidi genocide is still ongoing
The genocide resulted in the expulsion, flight, and effective banishment of the Yezidis from their ancestral land in Upper Mesopotamia. Thousands of Yezidi women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State (ISIS), and thousands of Yezidi men have been killed. Infant children were separated from mothers and killed by ISIS, whose mothers […]
The situation of Yezidi survivors of the Islamic State’s genocide in Iraq
“I have taken on the role of father and mother to my younger sisters,” says Yezidi survivor “Hala Safeel,” who lives with her family in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Hala Safeel fled from the grip of the Islamic State (ISIS), , which committed genocide against her Yezidi people, […]
The Yezidis in Iraq: the government’s neglect is still ongoing
The current number of Yezidis in Iraq is estimated, according to unofficial statistics, to be more than 700,000 people spread over three main regions: Sinjar (Shingal), the largest Yezidi city in Iraq and in the world; the Nineveh plain, which encompasses several areas for Yezidis, of which the most important is Sheikhan, the site of […]
The genocide of the Yezidis has been forgotten
In the summer of 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) committed genocide of the Yezidis in their largest city in Iraq and the world, Sinjar. The Yezidis are a religious minority in the Middle East; their main center is Iraq. At the time that the genocide began, their number was no more than 550,000 people, according […]