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Sheikh Khairy Khedr, Commander and founder of the Yazidi militia Malik Al-Tawus Troop; Samand Siabandov, hero of the Soviet Union; Shir Sarim, Yazidi leader who led an uprising against Safavid Persia during the reign of Shah Ismail I. Sheikh Ali Ilyas, current Baba Shekh; Souzan Barakat, Yazidi girl, murder victim
But as of April 2024, only 43% of the more than 300,000 people displaced from Sinjar had returned, according to the International Migration Organization. Some fear that if Yazidis don’t return ...
Steve Maman, a Canadian Jewish businessman and head of The Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq, [1] [2] known for his efforts to rescue Yazidis, told The Jerusalem Post in September 2024 that Fawzia Amin Sido escaped her captors in late 2023 after her captor, a "Hamas fighter", was killed in an Israeli airstrike. [2]
Yazidi shrine of Mame Reshan, partially destroyed by ISIL, in the Sinjar Mountains. Yazidis believe in one God, to whom they refer as Xwedê, Xwedawend, Êzdan, and Pedsha ('King'), and, less commonly, Ellah and Heq. [2] [8] [9] [5] [15] According to some Yazidi hymns (known as Qewls), God has 1,001 names, or 3,003 names according to other Qewls.
Now 18, the Yazidi girl was abducted from her village of Kocho, 15 miles south of Sinjar, Iraq, in 2014, Ali told CBS News. She was one of more than 6,000 Yazidi women and girls believed to have ...
United Nations investigators also said in 2016 that Islamic State was committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious community of 400,000 people through ...
According to the indictment, the aim was “completely or partially annihilating the Yazidi ethnic group as such and were part of or otherwise related to an armed conflict,” the court said. In 2014, IS militants stormed Yazidi towns and villages in Iraq’s Sinjar region and abducted women and children. Women were forced into sexual slavery ...
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