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Jesids in Germany recalled the genocide of their people eleven years ago in northern Iraq. In August 2014, terrorists from the IS militia attacked the Israeli Sinjar region and murdered thousands of men. Women and children were abused and abducted. The German Bundestag recognized the crimes as genocide.
Reflections Eleven Years From the Yezidi Genocide
By Charmaine Hedding | The Epoch Times | 8/2/2025 Over 2,500 Yezidi women and children remain missing to this day following ethnic cleansing in 2014. It was Aug. 3, 2014, and I remember sitting in front of the television, watching in horror as the so-called Islamic State swept across Iraq and Syria ethnically cleansing Yezidis and Christians from every territory it seized. On the screen were haunting images of Sinjar Mountain, where tens of thou…
Sinjar: Proxy Wars on Sacred Ground
Eleven years ago today, ISIS began its genocidal assault on Iraqi Yazidis. Reporting from the Sinjar region, our correspondent shows how a fractured community finds its path to recovery hindered by geopolitics as much as by violence. Hanif Khudeda, a Yazidi woman, stands outside of her tent on Mount Sinjar. (Courtesy of Jaclynn Ashly / Jacobin) Mount Sinjar rises from the arid plains of northwestern Iraq like a grassy sentinel — ancient, scarre…
Eleven years ago, ISIS fighters attacked the Yazids in Iraq. For the anniversary, the Federal Government's Freedom of Religion Commissioner promises assistance in reconstruction.
The documentary "Rashid", the child of Sinjar, available on France.tv, traces the story of a young Yézidi, rescued from the prisons of Daesh in Sinjar, north of Iraq. An upsetting story, not to forget. Interview with director Jasna Krajinovic.
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