Yazidis in a sentence

The same men who are funded and supported by regimes in Iran and Afghanistan, whose treatment of women – from the mass rape of Yazidis to the latest human rights abuses and restrictions on basic freedoms.

And she praised the Hungarians for recently expanding their assistance to a non-Christian minority in the region, the Yazidis.

SOS Chretiens d’Orient has been working with persecuted Christians in Iraq since 2014 when Islamic State jihadists overran the province of Mosul, displacing tens of thousands of minority Christians and Yazidis.

After traveling for more than three years to advocate for the Yazidis, she was exhausted.

Isis takes over Sinjar and Zumar in Syria, killing and abducting thousands of Yazidis.

Kidnapped at the age of 13 by the Islamic State (IS) and exploited as a sex slave, an 18-year-old woman has urged the international community to come forward to rescue and rehabilitate around 2,904 Yazidis who are under IS captivity.

On a number of occasions, Nadia asked me why people wouldn’t just help the Yazidis without her having to retell her terrifying and heartbreaking story, forcing her to relive her trauma in exchange for support.

Only a sliver of Sinjar’s native population of 500,000 Yazidis has returned, with the rest saying persistent destruction, the lack of services and the tense security situation have kept them in camps.

Since the 2003 U.S. invasion, the Yazidis have suffered from discrimination and persecution by extremist movements among the Muslim Arab population in the ethnically mixed region.

The United Nations estimates that close to 5,000 Yazidis were killed.

The U.N. recognizes the genocide that happened to the Yazidis, but there are more steps to secure a trial.

The Yazidis now face new threats caused by four interrelated developments, which are making their repatriation and rehabilitation extremely challenging.

You may have heard brief reports about the plight of the Yazidis and Christian groups in Iraq when Islamic State fighters raided their villages.

Again, he says it was a personal experience that brought him to the Yazidis.

Avdal said he is determined to campaign for the trial at the International Criminal Court of the terrorist leaders who killed or captured an estimated quarter of his village and thousands of his fellow Yazidis, and forced young girls to be sex slaves.

Hence, the government of Myanmar prevented the fate that befell the Yazidis in Iraq.

I spoke to people in Iraq and in Syria and travelled very closely to Sinjar Mountain at the time when nearly 20,000 Yazidis were besieged by IS.

Unlike other indigenous Persianate faiths, the Yarsan explicitly reject class, caste and rank, which sets them apart from the Yazidis and Zoroastrians. citation The Ahl-i Haqq consider the Bektashi and Alevi as kindred communities.