Nobel Peace Prize winner Murad says justice for Yazidis far too slow
The Nobel laureate says survivors still await accountability as families search for the missing and remains, with UN investigators calling the crimes genocide.
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Twelve years after the Yezidi genocide perpetrated by Daesh, the survivor and Nobel Peace Prize denounces the lack of justice for the victims. At least 2,000 women and children remain missing.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Murad says justice for Yazidis far too slow
IS jihadists seized large swathes of northern Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, declaring a so-called caliphate. In August that year, the fate of the Yazidis changed dramatically when IS seized a third of Iraq, including the Kurdish-speaking minority's ancestral homeland in the Sinjar Mountains. IS regarded the Yazidis, who follow a pre-Islamic faith, as heretics. They murdered thousands of Yazidi men in Iraq's Sinjar province and took into S…
Nobel Prize winner Nadia Murad asks the UN not to forget the 2014 Yazidi genocide
The UN has declared ISIS to have committed genocide against the Yazidi community in Iraq. Twelve years after the Islamic State (ISIS) militants carried out what the UN called...
[Geneva, Kyodo] Nadia Murad, an Iraqi woman of the Yazidi Kurdish minority who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, held a press conference in Geneva on the 30th, stating that more than 2,000 Yazidi women and children abducted by the extremist group "Islamic State" (IS) are still missing.
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