The situation of Yezidi survivors of the Islamic State’s genocide in Iraq

Jihad Watch -- robertspencer.org ^ | May 25, 2022 | Zidan Ismail

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“I have taken on the role of father and mother to my younger sisters,” says Yezidi survivor “Hala Safeel,” who lives with her family in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Hala Safeel fled from the grip of the Islamic State (ISIS), , which committed genocide against her Yezidi people, four years ago, after she suffered through three years of ISIS captivity. But she is still living through the period of imprisonment, as the fate of her parents and three of her siblings is still unknown. Safeel says: “Despite everything, and despite what I have been through, I see myself as strong and courageous, and will defend my rights and the rights of all Yezidi survivors until justice is done.”

Hala is not the only one who is trying to discover the fate of her loved ones. She rarely encounters a Yezidi citizen who has not lost a loved one, despite the fact that seven years have passed since her kidnapping by ISIS.

Hala describes the situation of the Yazidi survivors as tragic. The Yezidis have not yet found support from the Iraqi government and have reintegrated into Yezidi society again. Yezidi survivors face difficulties in accessing employment opportunities and the economic situation is poor.

Despite suffering in ISIS captivity, Hala encourages other survivors to work, to participate in activities and to stay strong, and she says that she aspires to a bright future and is working to achieve her goals by attaining justice for herself and all other Yezidi survivors.

Zidan Ismail is a Yezidi activist from Iraq who has written opinion articles on Jihad Watch. He is an interpreter and translator for legal language at the Ahmet Yildirim law office in Hanover, Germany. _____________________________

An excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Since the spread of Islam began with the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries, Yazidis have faced persecution by Arabs and later by Turks, as their religious practices have commonly been charged with heresy by Muslim clerics. Most recently, 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,[42] as well as the flight of more than 500,000 Yazidi refugees.[43][44][45]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis

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I’m surprised there are any Yezidis left.