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United States: The United States Department of State has formally recognised the Yazidi genocide in areas under the control of ISIS in 2016 and 2017. [148] On 14 March 2016, the United States House of Representatives voted unanimously 393-0 that violent actions performed against Yazidis, Christians, Shia and other groups by IS were acts of ...
The Sinjar massacre (Kurdish: Komkujiya Şengalê) marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL, the killing and abduction of thousands [14] [15] [22] of Yazidi men, women and children. It took place in August 2014 in Sinjar city and Sinjar District in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate and was perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and ...
Other Yazidi men were forced into Yazidi temples and blown up inside or taken into captivity. [75] Yazidi women and children captives were often raped by multiple men, typically friends of their captors. They believed that if a woman is raped by ten IS fighters, she would become Muslim. [76] Many were also sold as sex slaves to IS fighters. [77]
The Yazidis speak of 74 genocides of them in their history and call these genocides "Farman". The number of 72 Farman can be derived from the oral traditions and folk songs of the Yazidis. [64] [65] The last Farman is number 74 and denotes the genocide of the Yazidis by the IS terrorists. [66] [12] [13] [67]
The 2014 Yazidi genocide that was carried out by the Islamic State saw over 5,000 Yazidis killed and thousands of Yazidi women and girls forced into sexual slavery, [46] as well as the flight of more than 500,000 Yazidi refugees. [47] [48] [49]
The US asserted that the systematic destruction of the Yazidi people by the Islamic State was genocide. [110] The Arab League also accused the Islamic State of committing crimes against humanity. [111] [112] On 13 August, US airstrikes and Kurdish ground forces broke the ISIL siege of Mount Sinjar.
On August 14, 2007, the Yazidis in Iraq were victims of the 2007 Yazidi communities bombings in Sinjar, which killed 796 people. [9] On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, killing an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Yazidis and abducting another 6,000 to 7,000 Yazidis women and ...
to prevent a potential massacre (genocide) by ISIL on thousands of Yazidis on Mount Sinjar; and; to stop ISIL's advance on Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region [243] where the U.S. had a consulate and a joint operations center with the Iraqi military. [244] Obama further defended his decision by saying: ...the world is confronted by many ...