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An image of the village of Qurbe, which belongs to the Jindires subdistrict in the Afrin region, Kurd Mountain .
"A picture from the village of Qurbê in Jindires, Afrin, Syria, shows the road between Qurbê and the village of Qujuman."
The Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State was carried out in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq.
The genocide led to the expulsion, flight and effective exile of the Yazidis.
Thousands of Yazidi women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by ISIL, and thousands of Yazidi men were killed.
Five thousand Yazidi civilians were killed during what has been called a "forced conversion campaign" carried out by ISIL in Northern Iraq.
n 2014, with the territorial gains of the Salafist militant group calling itself the Islamic State there was much upheaval in the Iraqi Yazidi population.
Islamic State captured Sinjar in August 2014 following the withdrawal of Peshmerga troops of Masoud Barzani, forcing up to 50,000 Yazidis to flee into the nearby mountainous region.
Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis, are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh and Duhok.
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The majority of the Yazidi population lives in Iraq, where they make up an important minority community.
Estimates of the size of these communities vary significantly, between 70,000 and 500,000.
They are particularly concentrated in northern Iraq in the Nineveh Governorate.
The family got their civil documents in the camp thanks to UNHCR and the EU. Naif says it still is difficult to return with 6 kids: “In my poor situation I won’t be able to go back anytime soon. It will be difficult to start over.”
©European Union, 2023 (photographer: Sherko Mohamed)
“We need a solution. We need a house here or go back to Sinjar if it’s safe. But I’d need support to reconstruct my house,” says Naif. Over time humanitarian assistance has decreased and their debt is increasing. “Are we going to be here forever?”
©European Union, 2023 (photographer: Sherko Mohamed)
Barely a year after finishing building a house for his family in Sinjar, they had to flee the advance of ISIS. The house in Sinjar had 3 rooms, a bathroom and kitchen before it got destroyed. “I was comfortable in my house back in Sinjar, not like here.”
©European Union, 2023 (photographer: Sherko Mohamed)
Stuck in displacement, many girls and women are particularly vulnerable, especially after the threat of enslavement by ISIS. EU partners provide mental health and psychosocial aid to girls and women and have helped set up community women’s committees.
©European Union, 2023 (photographer: Sherko Mohamed)
48-year-old Naif and his family lives in a camp in Duhok in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. They are among 13,700 displaced Yazidi in Khanke camp. They haven’t been back to Sinjar in 9 years. Their eldest daughter returned but doesn’t have a job.
© European Union, 2023 (photographer: Sherko Mohamed).
For parents to register their newborns they need documentation, such as their own IDs and marriage certificates. The EU provides humanitarian assistance to the remaining conflict-displaced Iraqis, with a strong focus on legal aid and protection.
©European Union, 2023 (photographer: Sherko Mohamed)
Naif lost his leg in an accident in a cement factory. He earns a living selling phone accessories and his wife Aisha works in a recycling factory. They want to improve their 2 small rooms with cement. Currently, they are worried about the fire hazard.
©European Union, 2023 (photographer: Sherko Mohamed)
The day of the assault on their villages in August 2014 is still fresh in the memory of the Yazidi community. Alerted by people in nearby villages they set out using any means to get away. Many left without any documentation.
©European Union, 2023 (photographer: Sherko Mohamed)
Many young Yazidis are thirsty for education and better job opportunities. They don’t see a future for themselves back in Sinjar because of the lack of services and jobs. But others are convinced that “the place you are from is where you belong.”
©European Union, 2023 (photographer: Sherko Mohamed)
In 2014, with the territorial gains of the Salafist militant group calling itself the Islamic State there was much upheaval in the Iraqi Yazidi population.
Islamic State captured Sinjar in August 2014 following the withdrawal of Peshmerga troops of Masoud Barzani, forcing up to 50,000 Yazidis to flee into the nearby mountainous region.
Wikipedia
