Tomorrow marks ten years since ISIS launched an assault on the Yazidi religious
minority in the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq—the beginning of a sustained
campaign of oppression and violence carried out by ISIS against the Yazidi
community.





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Ten Years on from the Yazidi Genocide: Victims of Kidnapping and Enslavement
Still Await Justice


(New York, N.Y.) – Tomorrow marks ten years since ISIS launched an assault on
the Yazidi religious minority in the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq—the
beginning of a sustained campaign of oppression and violence carried out by
ISIS against the Yazidi community.



During the initial attacks, approximately 5,000 Yazidis were killed, many
through mass executions, and nearly 7,000 Yazidi women and children were
kidnapped and enslaved throughout ISIS's so-called caliphate. As ISIS advanced,
400,000 Yazidis were forced to flee to Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. An estimated
55,000 Yazidis fled to the nearby Sinjar Mountains, where many died from
dehydration and starvation.



To commemorate this anniversary, CEP has launched a new resource providing key
information on the genocide, including details of CEP’s partnership with
Nobody’s Listening—an award-winning immersive exhibition and virtual reality
(VR) experience dedicated to educating people about the Yazidi genocide.



Liam Duffy, strategic adviser at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP),
commented on the anniversary:



“Ten years have passed since the ISIS onslaught against the Yazidi population
of Sinjar, Iraq, and one of the worst atrocities of modern times has already
all but faded from our collective consciousness.



Some 6,000 Europeans are thought to have joined ISIS, many of them after the
Yazidi genocide was well documented and publicised—mainly by ISIS themselves.
Despite this, and despite eyewitness and survivor accounts pointing to the
involvement of Western recruits in the most unspeakable crimes committed
against innocent women and children, there have been precious few charges and
fewer still convictions.



Western governments—above all those that recognise August 3rd as a
genocide—have both a moral and legal responsibility to investigate their
citizens for any possible role in the torment and torture of Yazidis taken
captive by ISIS. Yazidis can no longer wait and see their calls for justice and
accountability fall on deaf ears."



To read CEP’s Yazidi Genocide resource, please click here
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To read CEP’s report on Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi Genocide,
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