Yazidi genocide
Yazidi genocide. The genocide[1][2][3][4][5] of the Yazidis began on August 3, 2014 in the northern Iraqi city of Sinjar and the surrounding area, a main settlement area of the Yazidis. The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) ISIS is considered responsible for the genocide.
Motive: Islamism's bigotry and Arab racism.
In 2016 and 2017, the genocide of the Yazidis was still ongoing. There was systematic murder and rape, separated into men and women: the men were killed and the boys used as child soldiers, the women and girls were loaded onto buses and older women were killed, the rest were sold into slavery and systematically raped and abused. "Nearly 10000 Yazidis killed, kidnapped by Islamic State in 2014, study finds."[6]
The massacre of the Yazidi people by ISIS was nothing less than genocide. In refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, the authors brought a skilled team to interview more than a hundred ISIS survivors and document what they experienced and saw. These former slaves observed their torturers and know from the inside the secret facilities that ISIS has kept hidden from the world. What their testimony reveals is an organization whose ambition is power, regardless of their claim to be "soldiers of God." Their fighters are paid with sex, money, and the power of life and death over captives. Their promised paradise is here and now, not after death.
Men who didn't swear allegiance were executed. Women became slaves for sex or reproduction, and their offspring may still serve the cause. In mobile training camps, the captured children were drugged, indoctrinated, and taught to shoot Kalashnikovs, plant explosives, and handle suicide vests. They are the intended products of the terrorist factory. In this taut, disturbing account, the authors document a utilitarian genocide that still holds an implicit threat to other counties, including those in the West.[4]
"Yazidis are an ancient religious community located in norther Iraq that ISIS brutally targeted in 2014 because of their unique faith. ISIS classified Yazidis as "infidels," which justified their genocidal campaign, the sexual enslavement of women and girls and the murder of their men. Mass graves in Iraq continue to be discovered. Looking at the facts and the law, genocide is the only way to describe what the Yazidis experienced. In the face of genocide, nations valuing human rights must not turn away."[7]
The persecution of Yazidis, such as by Arabs, Turks, has been ongoing since at least the 12th century.[8]
See also
- Rape jihad
- Genocide of Christians by ISIS
- Jihad
- Yemeni Ansar Allah
- ISIS-K
- Fawzia Amin Seido
- Lina Ishaq
- Arabization
References
- ↑ (January 19, 2023). German lawmakers recognise Islamic State crimes against Yazidis as genocide. Reuters.
- ↑ Schmermund, E. (2017). ISIS and the Yazidi Genocide in Iraq. United States: Rosen Publishing Group, Incorporated
- ↑ (January 19, 2023). German lawmakers recognise Islamic State crimes against Yazidis as genocide. Reuters.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Desbois, P., Costel, N. (2018). The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror. United States: Arcade Publishing.
- ↑ (July 30, 2024) Report Launch | The Yazidi Genocide: Ten Years & Counting. Wilson Center.
- ↑ (May 9, 2017). Nearly 10000 Yazidis killed, kidnapped by Islamic State in 2014, study finds. Reuters.
- ↑ (February 7, 2022). Knox Thames, Identifying the Yazidi Genocide | Opinion. Newsweek.
- ↑ Allison, Christine (January 25, 2017). "The Yazidis". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.254. ISBN 9780199340378.
