There, they began a comprehensive attack on the Yazidis, slaughtering many and capturing women and girls as sex slaves. When asked to answer for ISIS’ innumerable atrocities and crimes, Hasik, who now wants to return to Germany, proclaims his innocence. “I was just a policeman,” h...
Yazidis Essay 2. Isis is an Iraqi terrorist group who is trying to gain more control over the war torn country. The group has “a reputation for brutal rule in the areas that it controls”(CNN). Many innocent civilians have been killed due to the inhumane acts that this group has commit...
family in Sinjar, northwest Iraq, on Wednesday.Steve Maman, a Jewish Canadian businessman sometimes referred to as "the Jewish Schindler" for his efforts to help Yazidis escape ISIS captivity, posted avideoon social media Thursday showing the moment the family was reunited after 10 years."I ...
Isis ripped Khalaf and her family from their home as many of other Yazidis. They were forced to be kept separate from their families. The reason that Isis is so disastrous is because of how they treated Yazidis and many others. In the book “The Girl who escaped Isis: This is my story...
ISIS has pricelists for the Yazidi captives, based on their physical appearance, marital status, age, and number of children, ranging between $75 and $1500. Some reports suggest that some slaves were sold for as little as couple of dollars, or given as gifts for free. See “A Call for...
Zikran, after being indoctrinated, believed everything his captors said. He lost friends who became suicide bombers, and concedes that he too would have seen the same fate, had he not been rescued by Yazidis who ferried women and children out of ISIS captivity....
"ISIS Genocide Against Christians, Yazidis? European Parliament Recognizes Islamic State Targeting Religious Minorities", February 4, 2016. “The European Parliament characterized the persecution as "genocide" Thursday.” ↑ JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION, European Parliament ↑ MEPs call for urgent ...
because I just needed to show the truth of the war. Everybody you see in the video, those are real victims from Kobane and Sinjar [two major Kurdish cities], and there were also Yazidis [a religious-minority group based in the mountains of Iraq]. The tanks are real, the weapons, the...
August 6, 2014 - ISIS fighters attack the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, home of a religious minority group called the Yazidis. More than 30,000 Yazidi families are stranded in the Sinjar Mountains. A Yazidi lawmaker says that 500 men have been killed, 70 children have died of thirst an...
An elderly Yazidi man arrives in Kirkuk after being released by ISIS on Saturday, January 17. The militant group released about 200 Yazidis who were held captive for five months in Iraq. Almost all of the freed prisoners were in poor health and bore signs of abuse and neglect, Kurdish off...