Sinjar massacre
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The Sinjar massacre marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL, the killing and abduction of thousands of Yazidi men, women and children. It took place in August 2014 in Sinjar city and S
A Yazidi mass grave in Sinjar, pictured in 2015
President Obama meeting with his national security advisors on 7 August 2014
Demonstration in Paris against persecution of Kurds and Yazidis.
Defend International reaching out to Yazidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan, December 2014
Persecution of Yazidis
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The persecution of Yazidis has been ongoing since at least 637 CE. Yazidis are an endogamous and mostly Kurmanji-speaking minority, indigenous to Kurdistan. The Yazidi religion has historically been r
Sinjar massacre
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Yazidi refugee children from Sinjar in Newroz Camp, Al-Malikiyah District, August 2014, after the Sinjar massacre.
Ruins of the Yazidi shrine of Mam Rashan in Sinjar mountains after its destruction by the Islamic State.
The Geli Ali Beg Waterfall in Iraqi Kurdistan is named after the Yazidi leader Ali Beg who was killed there in 1832 by the Kurdish prince Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz.
Many Yazidis from Sheikhan, who had fled from the Kurds but could not cross the Tigris river, gathered on the great mound of Kouyunjik, where they were persecuted and killed by Muhammad Pasha's men.