The Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Ottawa has issued a notice calling on Ezidi families living in Canada to provide information about relatives who remain missing.
According to the embassy, Iraq’s Martyrs Foundation has requested a list of missing Ezidis together with contact information for their relatives currently living in Canada. The information will form part of future work coordinated with Iraq’s Department of Forensic Medicine and the country’s unified national register for missing persons.
The initiative is intended to support efforts to establish the fate of those who remain missing and to improve the documentation of cases involving Ezidi families abroad.
Relatives who wish to submit information are being asked to provide the missing person’s full name, date of birth, place and date of disappearance, as well as the name of the relative submitting the information, their relationship to the missing person, telephone number and address.
The embassy states that the information can be submitted via WhatsApp at +1 613-883-6171.
More than a decade after the 2014 Ezidi Genocide, many families continue to live without answers about relatives who were abducted or disappeared. Efforts to identify missing Ezidis remain one of the most urgent unresolved consequences of the genocide.
