The International Community Should Stop the Genocide of the Yezidi People.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

The Yezidi people are being massacred by ISIS fanatics in the heart of their homeland.

Hundreds of innocents are being massacred others driven from their homes and forced to flee.

"northwestern Nineveh province, bordering Iraq's Kurdish region.
The U.N. children's agency, UNICEF, said Tuesday that official reports indicated 40 children from the Yazidi minority had died "as a direct consequence of violence, displacement and dehydration" since the weekend.


"Families who fled the area are in immediate need of urgent assistance, including up to 25,000 children who are now stranded in mountains surrounding Sinjar and are in dire need of humanitarian aid including drinking water and sanitation services," it said.


Dakhil gave a similarly awful account.

"Over the course of 48 hours, 30,000 families are stranded in the Sinjar Mountains with no water and food. They are dying -- 70 kids so far died from thirst and suffocation," she said.

"Fifty old men died due to the deteriorating situation. Our women are being captured and sold as slaves."


Article

"The militant advance on Sinjar and other towns in the area displaced as many as 200,000 people, according to the UN Mission in Iraq. Most of the displaced are Yezidi, a Kurdish community whose faith includes features of the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism."

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"This week may mark the moment the ancient religious home for the Yazidi faith is wiped out in Iraq"

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