Yazidi

Ten years ago, their village in Iraq’s Sinjar region was decimated by Daesh militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children were abducted, many raped or taken as slaves. Now the survivors are coming…
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German police have arrested an Iraqi couple alleged to be Daesh members, on suspicion of genocide and crimes against humanity for enslaving two Yazidi girls, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Twana H. S. and Asia R. A., whose…
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Some 430 Americans of Yazidi background and Nobel laureate Nadia Murad accused French conglomerate Lafarge of supporting brutal attacks on the population through a conspiracy with the Daesh, according to a complaint reviewed Friday by AFP.…
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Britain’s government on Tuesday formally declared that atrocities committed by the Daesh group against the Yazidi people in Iraq were acts of genocide. The UK Foreign Office said the government’s official acknowledgement came after a…
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Prosecutors in the Netherlands on Friday announced they plan to put a Dutch woman who joined Daesh on trial for crimes against humanity for enslaving a Yazidi woman in Syria in 2015. The woman, identified by Dutch media as Hasna Aarab,…
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British human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy has said that Turkey should face charges before the International Court of Justice for being complicit in acts of genocide against the Yazidi people. Kennedy also endorsed an investigation…
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Iraqis in a northern town still traumatized by memories of the Daesh group feared more violence Tuesday after hostilities between the military and a local militia erupted, people internally displaced by the fighting said. Tensions…
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Renowned human rights defender Amal Alamuddin Clooney has secured the prosecution of a Daesh member who abused, enslaved and assisted in the rape of captured Yazidi women. Clooney’s client was a Yazidi woman who was taken and enslaved at…
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