Yazidis

Niswan Zalud, 22, a Yazidi man whose family fled ISIS, Shingal, Iraqi Kurdistan. (Seth J. Frantzman)
PHOTOS: A modern genocide — Yazidi survivors in Shingal
Text and photos by Seth J. Frantzman In August 2014 the extremist group calling itself Islamic State (ISIS) swept through a part of northern Iraq inhabited by the Yazidi religious minority. ISIS had already broadcast to the world their intention to exterminate “un-believers” and those they opposed. They had massacred 1,600 Shia army cadets at Camp Speicher…
By +972 Magazine January 1, 2016
The Yazidi refugee camp, Khanek (photo: Saad al-Avdal)
Surviving winter after surviving ISIS: A testimony by a Yazidi refugee
Since the beginning of August, an estimated 350,000 Yazidi internally displaced persons (IDP) have been living in villages, towns and various refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, Syria and Turkey. While most of those who found refuge have taken shelter in local school classrooms, construction sites or under bridges, the IDPs who have been placed in…
By +972 Magazine October 22, 2014
Palestinian women argue with an Israeli soldiers, after a Palestinian youth was shot with live ammunition and was taken by the army, during the weekly protest against the occupation, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, August 15, 2014. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)
Photos of the week: Ceasefire begins and ends
This week: Palestinian and Israeli protests across the political, ethnic and religious spectrum; homes and property damaged and destroyed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel; aid for those suffering; and a wedding under protest. Related: Wedding crashers: Do anti-miscegenation protesters hate or love Judaism? 10,000 protest in Tel Aviv for a just peace, end…
By Activestills August 22, 2014
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