För eziderna är det inte bara viktigt att världen erkänner folkmordet och att de överlevande får upprättelse samt stöd; För eziderna är det också viktigt att väst inte tvångs-grupperar eziderna med kurderna och därmed fortsätter med samma förtryck som de flytt ifrån i mellanöstern.
Målet mellan Ishaq och åklagaren på Stockholms tingsrätt, angående folkmord och brott mot mänskligheten. IS, ISIS ….
The risk of not acknowledging this fact is that some may try to exploit the suffering that Ezidis have endured. Certain actors in the Middle East, particularly those who refuse to accept the unique Ezidi ethnic and religious identity.
The Swedish national, named Lina Ishaq, is accused of having nine Ezidi children and women in her home in Raqqa, Syria between 2014 and 2016.
Weighting on table. Free public domain CC0 photo. More: View public domain image source here 25.09.2024 A 35-year-old French woman,...
This case is of historic importance since it is first time an individual is being prosecuted for the crime of genocide against the Ezidi people in Sweden. The victims currently live outside Sweden.
Ezidi district of Al-Qahtaniyah, west of Nineveh governorate, Ezidi people who are currently living in IDP camps still remember August 14, 2007, as the day when their region experienced the deadliest series of bombings in Iraq since the 2003 U.S. invasion.
As an ancient ethno-religious minority, the Ezidis have faced persecution for centuries due to their faith. The self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria viewed Ezidis as heretical devil worshippers.
The Yezidis are an ethno-religious minority with the majority speaking Kurmanji, one of the main Kurdish dialects, according to researchers. Geographically, they are classified as a dispersed minority in demographic centres where population density is homogenous and concentrated. They are mainly located in contested areas across several residential clusters, notably in the Sinjar region (locally known as Shingal) and the Nineveh Plain, which falls administratively under the central government. This region includes the Shekhan district, along with numerous Yezidi villages and towns in the Tel Keppe district, as well as the cities of Ba’shiqa and Bahzani in Nineveh province. There are also smaller population clusters in the southern and western parts of Duhok province, which have been part of the Kurdistan region since 1991, including towns and cities such as Sharya, Khanke, Ba’adre, and Derabun.
The third Iraqi women’s conference, held on 25 July in Baghdad and organized by the Iraqi Women’s Association and the Yazidi Women’s Freedom Movement (TAJÊ), focused on uniting against femicide and commemorating the victims of the 2014 Yazidi genocide. The conference included speeches highlighting the impact on women and children, the unknown fate of many captured by ISIS, and the need for women to organize against patriarchal violence.
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide. It has been ten years since over 10,000 Yazidis were brutally murdered. Ten years since more than 7,000 women and children were subjected to abduction, violence, and enslavement. Ten years since thousands have disappeared and over 2,600 are still missing without a trace. This article is republished on Ezidi Times with the kind permission of Jurist.org.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted Ezidi activists at the State Department on July 23 ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Ezidi genocide by ISIS.
In this article we give you a recap of the main events related to the Ezidis. Ezidi Athlete Yurik Mamedov...
The Iraqi flag. Foto: Bryan Jones on flickr. The relationship between Kurdish political parties and the Ezidi population in Iraq has become...
Supreme Court of Kosovo. Foto: Wikimedia Commons. Kosovo's Special Prosecution has indicted a Kosovo citizen, identified as M.D., for crimes...
Yazidi demonstration in front of the White House in Washington DC. (March 15, 2019) The poster on the left says...
On July 10, 2024, an Iraqi court sentenced Asma Mohamed, one of the wives of the Islamic State leader Abu...
Views of the site of a massacre by the Islamic State and mass grave of Ezidis in Shingal (Sinjar) in...
Ezidi tombs were being destroyed and vandalized. The tombs were reportedly specifically targeted because they were the tombs of Ezidi girls. The vandalizers have not only destroyed the tombs, but they have also thrown out the resting bones, showing no respect to the deceased people and their and their families.
Stockholm - 25 January 2024 Stockholm District Court. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A Swedish National - previously sentenced for enlisting her...
14 April 2924 Several NGOs have made a statement regarding the Yazidi Survivors Law. The full statement is available here....
