Yazidi UPDATES genocide has occurred and is ongoing

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Hideous.

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Hideous.

Truly hideous what has happened to these poor people

They represent 6765 years of living history

Many of the Yezidi beliefs have gone into the formation of the Abrahamic religions

Without the Yezidis there would be no Judaism no Christianity no Islam

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@Anthea : you suck really in History of Religions if you believe what Yezidis tell.

But Lalesh is one of themost beautiful, serene and enlightened sacred places I visited. And when Agatha Christie went also to Lalish she fall in love with that place.

I went 3 times to that pilgrimage I could explain all the steps of the rites

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@Anthea : you suck really in History of Religions if you believe what Yezidis tell.

But Lalesh is one of themost beautiful, serene and enlightened sacred places I visited. And when Agatha Christie went also to Lalish she fall in love with that place.

I went 3 times to that pilgrimage I could explain all the steps of the rites

You must have found that really interesting

Are the Yezidis as friendly as I have always believed them to be ?

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ezidiPress

8 women and children escape from ISIS captivity

Shingal – Eight Ezidi women and children escaped this morning from ISIS terrorists, an ezidiPress correspondent has confirmed. The women and children were kidnapped in Shingal region by ISIS in the beginning of August 2014 and later brought to Tal Afar where they were being held captive for nearly nine months.

The kidnapped individuals from Gohbel, Kojo and Dohola eventually fled from Tal Afar, one of the remaining ISIS strongholds in Iraq where dozens of other kidnapped Ezidis are reportedly still located at. Detailed circumstances of the eight Ezidis´ escape are unknown, it is stated that they have been released with the help of Arab middlemen.

The women and children are in safety now, their state of health is said to be stable.

http://ezidipress.com/en/8-women-and-ch ... captivity/

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Yazidis: Finding the best way to counter ISIS’s cruelty

I recently met “Noor,” a 16-year-old Yezidi girl who had escaped from ISIS six months earlier. The extremist group abducted her from her hometown in Iraq in August and locked her in a house with young women and girls who were being forcibly married off or sold to ISIS fighters.

Noor and a friend attempted suicide together – she showed me the scars on her wrists. But they survived. Then two ISIS fighters took them and said, “You are sold to us.” The men beat and raped the girls for five days. Noor and her friend managed to escape while the men were away fighting.

My colleagues and I spoke with 20 Yezidi women and girls who had escaped from ISIS. They described abductions, forced marriages, sexual slavery and rape.

But Noor’s story in particular stayed with me. All the other women and girls I met in Dohuk, in northern Iraq, showed signs of acute emotional distress, describing how they constantly remembered the horror of their abductions and abuse. But Noor showed signs of healing.

Yezidi community activists told me that when Noor escaped, in September, she was a ghost of her former self. She was deeply traumatized and cried most of the time. They arranged for her to see a psychotherapist, and they and her parents encouraged her to keep getting therapy. Noor said she was taking a sewing class and that sometimes members of a nongovernmental group took her out of the camp to the local mall. Undoubtedly, hers is a fragile recovery. She still has nightmares but is beginning to feel better. She has a spark in her eye and she smiled and joked with me. Like any teenager, she texted on her phone and wore half of a “best friend” necklace.

“Too often in conflicts involving sexual violence, communities retaliate against female survivors.”

Noor is a positive example of the impact of appropriate treatment and family and community support on the lives of survivors of sexual violence. But treatment and support for women and girls who have escaped from ISIS is not as available as it needs to be, and it’s not always easy to convince survivors to seek help. Local officials and some organizations told us in February that they were only able to identify about 100 women and girls out of a few hundred who were believed to have escaped, partly because of the stigma associated with sexual violence.

Too often in conflicts involving sexual violence, communities retaliate against female survivors. Husbands desert wives, families abandon daughters. Survivors are left with little economic support and when the conflict ends, some women and girls cannot return home for fear of rejection.

Of particular concern is the potential for violence, even killings, by families to purge “dishonor.” Such violence and even killings are common in Iraq across religious and ethnic divides. Under Iraq’s penal code, a murder sentence can be reduced for some so-called “honor” crimes.

But amid the misuses of religion by groups like ISIS to justify brutality, a Yezidi religious leader, Baba Sheikh, issued a statement in September calling for the community to reintegrate survivors of ISIS abuse. In February, he reissued the appeal, calling on Yezidis to “cooperate with and support these victims so that they may again live their normal lives and integrate into society.” These statements appear to have helped protect Yezidi women and girls from harm and have encouraged families to seek treatment for female relatives who return.

The Kurdistan Regional Government, under whose authority most Yezidi escapees now live, along with religious and community officials, can do more to alleviate the stigma surrounding abductions and sexual violence. They can raise awareness that women and girls who have returned should be treated as victims and survivors. They need to feel safe enough to reach out for necessary services and care, and families should be encouraged to support them.

Women and girls like Noor also need medical treatment, including emergency contraception, safe and legal abortion services where medically appropriate, preventive measures and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. They need prenatal and maternal health services, as well as ongoing counselling. And they need financial assistance, education, and training and opportunities for jobs to help reintegrate them into the broader community.

ISIS is systematically using rape to terrorize and humiliate Yezidi and other women and girls. The Yezidi community has shown that it is willing to stand by the survivors of this brutal war crime. But recovery is going to be a long process, and local officials and Yezidi community and religious leaders should continue to support and protect survivors, press for more resources for treatment, and ensure that these girls and women are not re-victimized within their homes and communities as a result of stigma and from so-called “honor” crimes. This is the best way to counter ISIS’s cruel aims.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-best-way ... ign=buffer

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"41 Ezidi; 24 children, 10 women & 7 men freed from ISIS captivity today" said Khairi Bozani, the Director of Ezidi affairs in KRG

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Mixed information around

Have the Islamic State slaughtered more Yazidis in recent days

URGENT PLEA to coalition forces to stop massacre of 500 Ezidi men by ISIS in Tel Afar

"ISIS had separated circa 500 boys and men from the rest of the prisoners"

Is this true if so are they at risk of being killed?

The execution of hundreds of Yazidis in the city of (Tal Afar) at the hands of isis

Today was the killing of hundreds of men, women and children Yezdis at the hands of isis inthe city of Tal Afar Mousl

If anyone knows what is happening

PLEASE POST INFORMATION

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ARA News

ISIS militants execute 600 Yezidis northern Iraq

On Friday the so-called Sharia Court of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) reportedly executed 600 hostages from the Yezidi community of Shingal (Sinjar) in the Talafar district in northern Iraq.

The group piled the bodies into the well of Alo Antar on al-Ayyadiya highway, local sources reported.

Shahin Shingali, a fighter in the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, stated to ARA News that since Friday the IS radicals transferred nearly 700 Yezidi hostages to Talafar.

“Without a direct intervention by the international community, Iraq will be witnessing more genocides against innocent people at the hands of the IS terrorists,” Shingali said.

Aseel al-Nujaifi, governor of Nineveh province in Iraq, confirmed on Friday that the IS terrorists executed hundreds of Yezidi captives.

“A new crime was committed by Daesh (Islamic State) against our Yezidi people on Friday,” al-Nujaifi said in a statement.

“IS gangs executed hundreds of innocent Yezidi prisoners.”

“These terrorists are degrading Islamic religion. Muslim clerics should bear their responsibility to show the public the reality of this terrorist group, demonstrating how it is diametrically opposed to the correct, tolerant teachings of the Islamic religion,” al-Nujaifi added.

Commenting on the incident, the Yezidi writer and researcher Salem Rashidani told ARA News: “We have received reports saying that IS militants executed the Yezidi men in the district of Talafar in Nineveh province, after isolating them from their families, throwing their corpses in the valley near the city.

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Horrific! Daesh forces sex slave to marry 20 fighters AND have surgery each time

The Islamic State terrorist group (Daesh) forced a sex slave to marry 20 fighters and even made her undergo surgery each time to restore her virginity, a United Nations official said.

The group paraded and traded Syrian and Iraqi girls in 'slave bazaars' before the victims were shipped to other provinces, it was claimed.

Zainab Bangura, special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, travelled to five countries and interviewed dozens of women and young girls who had survived brutal sexual abuse.

She said the girls were routinely stripped naked before being categorized and shipped off.

'Women and girls are at risk and under assault at every point in their lives,' she said.

'ISIL have institutionalized sexual violence and the brutalization of women as a central aspect of their ideology and operations, using it as a tactic of terrorism to advance their key strategic objectives.'

She added that the threat of brutality followed them 'every step of the way… in the midst of active conflict, in areas under control of armed actors, at check-points and border crossings and in detention facilities.'

Ms Bangura's research was completed between 16 to 29 April. She visited Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.

It is not the first time sexual violence by ISIS fighters has been exposed.

sexual prowess and subjecting their wives to 'brutal, abnormal' sex acts, according to local doctors.

Yazidi women and girls, some as young as five, taken from their homes earlier in the year were also regularly raped and abused by fighters, survivors said.

Some victims even faced being returned home after falling pregnant by their captors and are at risk at being ostracised by their community, which frowns upon pre-marital sex.

A human rights office also published a horrifying report earlier in the year describing killings, torture, rape, sexual slavery and the use of child soldiers by the extremists, suggesting they may be guilty of 'war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide'

http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/ho ... ime-692016

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The question:



The answer:

Nobody

Yezidis have been forgotten and ignored the kidnapped left to suffer endless pain and humiliation

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The Black Massacre - a film by Nawzad Shekhany

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Kurdish Muslim extremists killed this young Yezidi in Iraqi Kurdistan



This young Yezidi man was stoned to death by Muslim Kurds after his refusal to convert to Islam.