Tag: Yazidi people
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In Focus – Iraq: In Sinjar, displaced Yazidis fight to return home
On May 16, in the Iraqi province of Sinjar, the positions of a Yazidi armed group affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been the target of drone attacks attributed to Turkey, which has complicated the return of the Yazidis. in exile since the genocide perpetrated by jihadists from the Islamic State group in…
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Iraq: the difficult return of Yazidis to Sinjar
First modification: 07/06/2022 – 17:31 Yazidi women box in a gym in the heart of a refugee camp in northern Iraq. To regain their dignity and self-confidence, they learn self-defense techniques. They are known as the “survivors”. Sinjar is essentially the historical home for the Yazidi people of Iraq, a minority displaced by the self-styled…
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The Observers – Yazidi Refugees Flee Iraq Violence Again
First modification: 06/07/2022 – 19:37 On May 1 and 2, intense fighting broke out between the Iraqi Army and Yazidi fighters affiliated with the Kurdish rebel group Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Sinjar region of northwestern Iraq. The fighting displaced thousands of Yazidis for the second time, as many as had recently resettled in…
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Reporters – Yazidis in Armenia, a historically persecuted and unprotected community
First modification: 05/31/2022 – 19:45 The history of the Yazidi people is a chronicle of persecution, massacres and forced exodus from its origins in northern Iraq. In the last genocide of this people, carried out by the Islamic State in 2014, some 100,000 surviving Yazidis emigrated to Armenia and settled there. Although the Armenian government…
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An Iraqi jihadist was sentenced to life in prison in Germany for the genocide of Yazidis
First modification: 12/01/2021 – 00:41 This Tuesday, November 30, a Frankfurt court sentenced Taha al-Jumailly, a member of the jihadist group Islamic State, to prison for life who left a Yazidi girl he had enslaved in northern Iraq to die of thirst. It is the first verdict in the world that recognizes the genocide of…