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In the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Yazidis are considered ethnic Kurds [34] and the autonomous region considers Yazidis to be the "original Kurds". [147] The sole Yazidi parliamentarian in the Iraqi Parliament Vian Dakhil also stated her opposition to any move separating Yazidis from Kurds. [34] Aziz Tamoyan the president of the Yezidi ...
Over a period of three years, Islamic State militants trafficked thousands of Yazidi women and girls and killed thousands of Yazidi men; [13] the United Nations reported that the Islamic State killed about 5,000 Yazidis [5] and trafficked about 10,800 Yazidi women and girls in a "forced conversion campaign" [14] [15] throughout Iraq.
Fawzia Amin Sido (Kurdish: Fewziya Emîn Seydo, [6] فەوزییە ئەمین سیدۆ, [a] Arabic: فوزية أمين سيدو [3] [13]) is a Kurdish Yazidi woman from northern Iraq. She was captured by the Islamic State as a 10-year-old child, [b] during the Yazidi genocide in 2014.
After some Kurdish tribes became Islamized in the 10th century, they joined in the persecution of Yazidis in the Hakkari mountains. [3] [12] Due to their religion, Muslim Kurds persecuted and attacked the Yazidis with particular brutality. [3] [2] [12] [13] Sometimes, during these massacres, Muslim Kurds tried to force the Yazidis to convert to ...
At this point, Yazda began its work trying to locate and help free Yazidi women and girls, more than 3,200 of whom were captured, enslaved, and are still held hostage by the Islamic State. [11] Those women and girls are victims of human trafficking and sexual slavery. [10] Yazda's center in Iraq functions as a local non-governmental ...
Du'a Khalil Aswad (دعاء خليل أسود) (c. 1989 – c. 7 April 2007) was a 17-year-old Iraqi girl of the Yazidi faith who was stoned to death in Bashiqa, Ninawa, northern Iraq in early April 2007, the victim of an honor killing.
Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Kurdish: نادیە موراد بەسێ تەھا; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه; born 10 March 1993) is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist based in Germany. [2] [3] [4] In 2014, during the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State, she was abducted from her hometown of Kocho in Iraq.
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 ...