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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
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