Inför Iraks parlamentsval den 11 november kräver Ezidierna verklig representation efter år av fördrivning och politisk marginalisering. Genom Ezidi Cause Alliance hoppas kandidater på att ena Ezidiska röster och stärka kampen för självbestämmande, värdighet och återuppbyggnaden av Shingal.
Às vésperas das eleições parlamentares do Iraque, os Ezidis buscam uma representação genuína após anos de deslocamento e marginalização. Com a formação da Aliança da Causa Ezidi, candidatos de Shingal e Duhok tentam transformar a luta por sobrevivência e dignidade em voz política dentro do parlamento iraquiano.
A medida que Irak se prepara para las elecciones parlamentarias del 11 de noviembre, la comunidad ezidí exige una representación auténtica tras años de desplazamiento y marginación. Con la creación de la Alianza por la Causa Ezidí, los candidatos buscan superar los límites del escaño de cuota y construir una voz política independiente que refleje la voluntad y la dignidad del pueblo ezidí.
Ezidi’s in Irak eisen bij de verkiezingen van 11 november meer dan één quota-zetel. Met de Ezidi Cause Alliance streven ze naar bredere vertegenwoordiging, politieke erkenning en de wederopbouw van Shingal na jaren van ontheemding en onderdrukking.
Alors que les élections parlementaires approchent en Irak, les Ezidis revendiquent une représentation réelle et élargie. Au-delà du siège quota, l’Alliance de la Cause Ezidie cherche à unifier les voix Ezidies pour défendre leur survie, dignité et droit à l’autodétermination, tout en réclamant justice et reconstruction de Shingal.
Jesiden fordern bei den Parlamentswahlen im Irak am 11. November echte politische Vertretung. Neben dem offiziellen Quotenplatz treten zahlreiche Kandidaten über die Ezidi Cause Alliance an, um Stimmen zu bündeln und Shingal, das nach Vertreibung und Völkermord noch immer um Wiederaufbau kämpft, politisch stärker zu vertreten. Es geht um mehr als Sitze – es geht um Selbstbestimmung, Würde und die Zukunft des jesidischen Volkes.
After years of displacement and political neglect, the Ezidi people are demanding genuine representation. With the Ezidi Cause Alliance uniting candidates across the country, this election marks a defining moment to reclaim their voice, rebuild Shingal, and ensure that Ezidis — not outside powers — shape their own future.
Nearly 300 long-forgotten photographs of the Ezidi people, taken in northern Iraq during the 1930s, have been rediscovered in an American museum archive. The images, showing weddings, shrines, and daily life, offer a rare glimpse into Ezidi heritage nearly erased by ISIS, and are now being shared with Ezidis in Iraq and across the diaspora.
Am 12. August 2025 wurden die Überreste von 22 ezidischen ISIS-Opfern nach Sinjar zurückgebracht, nachdem sie in Bagdad per DNA-Analyse identifiziert worden waren. Dies ist die siebte offizielle Übergabe seit 2021 und zeigt sowohl das Ausmaß der Verbrechen als auch die fortlaufenden Bemühungen, Massengräber zu exhumieren und die Opfer gemäß ezidischer Tradition und dem Glauben an Sharfadin zu bestatten.
On 12 August 2025, the remains of 22 Ezidi victims of ISIS were returned to Sinjar for burial following DNA identification in Baghdad. This marks the seventh official handover since 2021, as authorities continue to exhume and identify victims from mass graves across the region. The process underscores the scale of the atrocities committed during ISIS’s 2014 assault and the ongoing efforts to allow families to bury their loved ones according to Ezidi tradition and the faith of Sharfadin.
On August 3, 2014, the Ezidi people of Sinjar were targeted for extermination by ISIS. Thousands were killed, enslaved, and displaced. The genocide aimed to erase not only lives, but identity, culture, and the ancient faith of Sharfadin.
Eleven years later, justice remains out of reach. Sinjar is still unsafe. Survivors are still waiting. And Iraq has yet to formally recognize the genocide—blocked by those who try to claim the Ezidis as their own.
We remember the victims.
We name the truth.
And we will not stop until justice is done and our people can return home safely. Ezidi Times will continue to speak. Loudly. Relentlessly. Truthfully.
In a significant step toward holding perpetrators accountable, an Iraqi court has sentenced a former ISIS member to death for his involvement in the kidnapping of Ezidis during the 2014 genocide in Sinjar. The individual was found guilty of participating in the armed attacks and mass abductions that targeted the Ezidi people in northwestern Iraq.
L’humanité traverse l’histoire en portant les cendres de ses propres crimes. Chaque pierre posée dans des mémoriaux comme celui de Tsitsernakaberd murmure des vies éteintes et des promesses trahies — plus jamais ça, disons-nous, et pourtant, encore et encore, nous échouons. Tandis que la flamme éternelle brûle pour les Arméniens de 1915, elle projette une ombre jusqu’à Sinjar, où le peuple ézidi souffre encore des conséquences du génocide déclenché par l’État islamique en 2014. Onze ans plus tard, les blessures demeurent béantes, aggravées par la trahison, la négligence et des jeux politiques cyniques. Combien de mémoriaux faudra-t-il encore ériger avant que nous comprenions enfin que le souvenir ne suffit pas — que la justice et la protection doivent suivre, faute de quoi le cycle ne prendra jamais fin ?
Humanity walks through history carrying the ashes of its own crimes. Every stone laid at memorials like Tsitsernakaberd whispers of lives extinguished and of promises broken — never again, we say, yet again and again, we fail. As the eternal flame burns for the Armenians of 1915, it casts a shadow that reaches Sinjar, where the Ezidi people still suffer the consequences of the genocide ISIS unleashed in 2014. Eleven years later, the wounds remain unhealed, deepened by betrayal, neglect, and cynical politics. How many more memorials must we build before we finally understand that remembrance is not enough — justice and protection must follow, or the cycle will never end?
Dieser Artikel bietet eine Zusammenfassung wichtiger Nachrichten und Ereignisse, die das ezidische Volk im Juli 2025 betreffen. Er umfasst zentrale Entwicklungen aus dem Irak und der weiteren Diaspora, hebt bevorstehende Gedenkveranstaltungen, rechtliche Schritte, kulturelle Initiativen sowie Berichte über die anhaltenden Herausforderungen hervor, denen das ezidische Volk gegenübersteht.
The Imperial War Museum in London opened Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict, the UK’s first major exhibition on wartime sexual violence, running through November 2. It includes testimony and artefacts from Ezidi women enslaved by ISIS, alongside other global cases, raising awareness of survivors’ struggle for justice. The Free Ezidi Foundation contributed to the exhibition.
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An Iraqi military official emphasized that the PKK disarmament process should include Sinjar, where armed groups loyal to the PKK remain active. The official stressed that these groups must be part of any agreement. The PKK began destroying weapons in May, a move welcomed by Turkey as “a new era.”
Efforts to trace thousands of Ezidis abducted during the 2014 Sinjar genocide remain stalled amid political inertia and structural obstacles, a new report reveals. More than a decade after the Islamic State’s genocidal attack on the Ezidi people in northern Iraq, the search for those still missing has yielded only Read more
The Ezidi people endured brutal attacks in 2014 when ISIS forcibly displaced them from their ancestral homeland in northern Iraq, killing and enslaving thousands. ISIS falsely accused the Ezidis—whose ancient religion, Sharfadin, has roots in Mesopotamia—of worshipping Satan. After the military defeat of ISIS, many Ezidis remained in United Nations camps for internally displaced persons, relying heavily on humanitarian assistance.
The Ezidi people, an ancient ethnic and religious group from northern Iraq, continue to face dire conditions in displacement camps years after ISIS attacks forced them from their homes. The reduction in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has severely impacted reconstruction efforts, access to medical care, and essential services in camps where many Ezidis remain internally displaced.