Yazidi UPDATES genocide has occurred and is ongoing

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Kurdish President pledges
support and unity in Yazidi holiday message

Shafaq News/ On Thursday, President Nechirvan Barzani of the Kurdistan Region extended “heartfelt greetings” to the Yazidi community on the occasion of their holiday

In a message shared on X, President Barzani stated, "I warmly congratulate the Prince, religious leaders, and all our Yazidi brothers and sisters in Kurdistan, Iraq, and around the world. I wish you all a joyous holiday and a peaceful celebration."

President Barzani emphasized, "We assure our Yazidi brothers and sisters that Kurdistan will always remain a land of coexistence for all sects. We remain committed to supporting and protecting their rights and legitimate demands. Furthermore, we will continue to work towards improving their living conditions and rebuilding their areas."

https://shafaq.com/en/Kurdistan/Kurdish ... ay-message

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Yazidi ISIS survivors receive salaries

Over 2,000 Yazidi women who survived the Islamic State (ISIS) genocide a decade ago are receiving salaries from the Iraqi government under the Yazidi Survivors Law, enacted over three years ago, a federal official said on Sunday

“So far, 2,228 Yazidi girls and women receive salaries,” Sarab Ilias, head of the Yazidis affairs office at the Iraqi ministry of labor and social affairs, told Rudaw.

“Now we have only about 30 pending applications from Yazidi women,” he added, noting that each survivor receives a monthly salary of 800,000 Iraqi dinar ($615).

The Yazidi Survivors Law, passed in March 2021, seeks compensation for Yazidi survivors of the ISIS atrocities against them when the group attacked the Yazidi heartland of Shingal (Sinjar) in 2014. It abducted thousands of people and almost 3 thousand remain missing.

Though the jihadists no longer control any territory, they continue to pose a security risk by carrying out kidnappings, hit-and-run attacks, and bombings.

Thousands of Yazidis who fled Shingal to the Kurdistan Region have chosen not to return due to security concerns and lack of basic services at home.

Each returning family is given four million Iraqi dinars (about $3,050) along with some basic household items including a fridge, stove, and television.

Ali Abbas, spokesperson for Iraq's migration ministry, said in November that around 10,000 Yazidis had returned to Shingal this year.

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/29122024

Their entire lives have been destroyed, $3,050 a fridge, stove, and television is supposed to compensate

The entire world owes the Yazidis a great deal more, especially as everyone sat back and did nothing for more than a week while ISIS was slaughtering Yazidis

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Germany: accused of abusing Yazidi girls

Germany's federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes, after they allegedly kept two young Yazidi girls as slaves and sexually and physically abused them

The couple, identified as Twana H.S. and Asia R.A. in line with German privacy law, were arrested in the southern state of Bavaria in April.

The two are also suspected to have been members of the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS) extremist group in Iraq and Syria between October 2015 and December 2017, the prosecutor said in a statement.

The accusations against the couple?

They allegedly kept a 5-year-old Yazidi girl as a slave starting in late 2015, and a 12-year-old from October 2017.

According to the prosecutor, the couple bought the two children in a bazaar in Iraq.

The man is accused of having raped the girls, while the woman allegedly prepared the room and put makeup on one of the girls.

The couple also exerted "harsh physical violence" on the girls, forcing them to work constantly and subjecting them to beatings, according to prosecutors.

Before they left Syria in November 2017, the suspects allegedly handed the girls over to other ISIS members.

"All of this served the organization's objective to destroy the Yazidi religion," the prosecutor's statement said.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-iraqi-cou ... a-71186224