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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:08 pm

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Yazidis huddle for shelter in shell of unfinished luxury hotel after fleeing ISIS in Iraq

By Eric Lafforgue

Huddled inside the foreboding concrete skeleton of what should have been a five-star hotel, terrified families take shelter after fleeing marauding fighters from the Islamic State.

The families from the Yazidi minority found themselves in the nightmarish makeshift refugee camp after ISIS attacked the town of Sinjar on August 3, massacring hundreds and enslaving their women.

Some of those fortunate enough to escape sought refuge at the 13-storey Hotel Kayar - literally 'the place where one receives friends' - a few kilometres outside of Dohuk in Iraq.

With construction stalled in its early stages, the structure is an inhospitable environment for the 63 Yazidi families - 364 people in total - who now call it home.

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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:50 pm

No recent updates - not sure if that is good or bad

7000 Yazidis Still Besieged By ISIS And Are At Risk Of Slavery And Death!

They Appeal To The International Community For Help
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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:43 pm

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Below is a link to the emergency appeal for the people of Kurdistan, under attack by the most cruel murder machine since the Nazis. These are vulnerable people and possibly the last without a state to back them up. Their histories are lost in the mists of time.

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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:45 pm

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Islamic State advances against Yazidis on Iraq's Sinjar mountain

Islamic State militants advanced on Iraq's Sinjar mountain on Tuesday, tightening a siege of thousands of stranded Yazidis, who called on the United States and its allies to act to avert more bloodshed.

The attack is the latest threat to minority Yazidis, thousands of whom have shot, buried alive or sold into slavery by IS militants, who regard them as devil-worshippers.

The IS militants originally attacked the area around Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq, in August. A renewed assault began at dawn on Monday, when militants driving Humvees and civilian vehicles attacked several Yazidi residential compounds, forcing the Yazidi to retreat up the mountain.

"We are outnumbered and outgunned. We don't know how long we can hold them off," said Ali Qasem, a Yazidi volunteer on the mountain.

Qasem said most families had already fled by the time IS arrived, but some could not leave and remained trapped in residential complexes to the east of the mountain.

U.S. President Barack Obama authorized air strikes in Iraq in August, citing the duty to prevent an impending genocide of Yazidis at the hands of IS militants after they overran a vast swathe of northern Iraq.

The air strikes helped Kurdish forces turn the tide against IS in the north and relieved some of the pressure on Sinjar so that a corridor could be opened to evacuate thousands of Yazidis from the mountain.

However, the mountain is still under threat, and the air strikes have not prevented IS from gaining ground elsewhere in Iraq as well as neighbouring Syria, where they have been attacking the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab.

A Yazidi parliamentarian questioned why U.S. planes were striking IS positions in Kobani but not Sinjar. He said the militants sought to control the mountain to gain a strategic refuge near the border with Syria.

"Unfortunately, coalition planes are in the sky and can see the tanks, but they are not striking them," said Yazidi parliamentarian Mahama Khalil, also on the mountain. "Why do they defend Kobani and not Sinjar?"

Monday's attack was one of several along the front line between IS and Kurdish forces, which runs more than 1,000 kilometres from the Syrian border to Iraq's eastern Diyala province, near the frontier with Iran.

Militants disguised in Kurdish clothes tried to overrun the town of Qara Tapa in Diyala on Monday and later drove a tanker rigged with explosives into Kurdish lines in the Wana district, killing as many as 15 peshmerga, according to two officials.

Wana is around 40 km northwest of Mosul, near Iraq's largest dam, which was seized by IS in August before the U.S. air strikes drove the militants back and Kurdish peshmerga retook it.

A senior civil servant in the office of the Kurdistan region's president said recent IS attacks in the north aimed to divert the Kurds' attention to create an opening for another offensive against the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and Khanaqin town in Diyala.

"They have strategic interests there, too, but their grand strategy is Kirkuk and other Kurdish areas in Diyala to encircle Baghdad," Ari Mamshae said.

In a statement late on Monday, IS said it had carried out an attack on the "secularist Yazidi militias" and destroyed one of their shrines.

"The advances are continuous and the armies that liberated Nineveh and Ayn al-Arab are taking another step towards the Mosul dam, to which the mujahideen are very close".

(Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Larry King)

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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:05 pm

Hawar Moradi shared War Vîn Basî's video.

She takes the microphone and utters emotionally a sentence that literally kills an already slaughtered people thousands of miles away. Without having the tiniest sense about the truth, she pictures up a reality that exist only in the imaginary picture she has in her own mind.

Yes, that’s exactly what happened. A young girl by the name Hanar Marouf says in front of hundreds of famous people worldwide and hundreds of young people in the ONE YOUNG WORLD summit held recently in Dublin; Ireland.

The girls, who have managed to escape from the barbaric ISIS are threatened to death by their families. That they are in danger of being killed, in danger of dying once more as if it were not enough to be totally deprived of all the rights as human being. As if it was not enough to be used as sex slaves by the barbaric ISIS members, day and night.

It is with a shame, that we as a human beings have to hear such nonsense being said by a youth without taking on any consideration whatsoever of the consequences such statement can bring about.

I need to tell you that the truth is hidden and it exists only among those who admire it so much.Those who love the truth so much. Their existence from the start until now has brought about nothing else than goodness for this world. The same world of mine and yours, and for sure that of Hanar Marouf.

Yes, I mean the Yezidis, if you don't trust my words, then please go and hear their story, talk to them, feel them, embrace them, and when you are done, only then tell me if I am wrong about their pureness.

It's my duty to tell what I have seen. As a doctor I have the responsibility to maintain moral integrity and intellectual honesty to never hide the truth since it would and could definitely lead to death. I have worked amongst the Yezidis from 23rd of august 2014 until my departure from Northern Iraq on the 12th of October. I did finance my whole expense and did not belong to any organizations. I worked alone as a respect for my individual freedom and in order to always be able to tell the truth without feeling any obligations towards anyone.

I worked as a doctor at the Bajed kandal camp, in the emergency care in the Shabaniak Hospital but also in Khanke camp, In sharia, In ghalat dezeh, and also few other places around Sulaimanye. During my daily work I met hundreds of Yezidi people. I tell you these, so that you know I have been around many places where the yezidis that fled from Shingal area nowadays live.

I engaged in discussions without asking any questions, still I got many answers. I had the honor to meet some of those girls that had managed to escape from the barbaric ISIS after several weeks being abused both physically and psychologically.

I remember after hearing that one of them had nightmares and was waking up several times at night, which later after some nights, she chose not to sleep at all. When I asked her why she is afraid of ISIS? She looked at me and said, “If I tell you my whole story, even you would be afraid of them.”

None of these girls that I did have the honor to meet had received any help that they so desperately needed. Instead they were living with their families. Not only did I meet them once, but several times. Their families were not threatening them nor were they afraid of being killed by their loved ones. I have personally met those young Yezidi boys that offered themselves and were honored and happy to marry these girls.

These victims that I personally met were not all in one place, but they were living in different places. Psychologically they felt bad. They had problem sleeping, nightmares, anxiety disorder and few with panic attacks. Their economical status made their situation far worse and inhuman.

I worked among the Yezidis for two month. I have not heard even for once, that their families would have anyhow offended any of them. It’s a shame for the whole humanity that is letting down these girls.
Imagine if you were in their place. You manage to escape from weeks of torture, being raped, abused physically but also psychologically and end up living in a school yard, or a park, under the rain, with the rest of your family being treated poorly with barely any food and water.

I wish that Hanar Marouf was talking about the way these girls are treated by the society and those responsible for providing care for these victims. I wish she were talking about how they are being deprived of their human rights in their own country. I wish she were talking about how nobody cares about them. But of course creating hatred towards an already slaughtered people is far more attractive nowadays in this world we live.

What Hanar marouf says, is very dangerous. It’s dangerous because it creates hate. And it’s because of hate towards the Yezidies, that they have been through 74 genocides. Its estimated that these genocides have reduced the Yezidi population during 700 years from 20 million to 500-600 000 today.

I demand from the government, that Hanar Marouf represents to provide enough information about its minorities. So that one-day maybe they can all live together. I personally am not very optimistic because the ignorance that Hanar Marouf has shown is unfortunately highly widespread in huge part of that area.

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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:44 am

Still very heavy clashes on Mt Shingal!

No news is coming from the area

Yazidis too busy fighting and dying
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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:34 am

Some Yazidi fighters trapped inside the Sharfadin shrine

The situation is becoming much worse

The Sharfadin shrine should be the first and MOST IMPORTANT of all the Kurdish areas

The Sharfadin shrine is the very centre of the Yazidi life and the very

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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:33 pm

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Islamic State advances against Yazidis on Iraq's Sinjar mountain
By Isabel Coles and Saif Sameer

Islamic State militants advanced on Iraq's Sinjar mountain on Tuesday, tightening a siege of thousands of stranded Yazidis, who called on the United States and its allies to act to avert more bloodshed.

The attack is the latest threat to minority Yazidis, thousands of whom have shot, buried alive or sold into slavery by IS militants, who regard them as devil-worshippers.

The IS militants originally attacked the area around Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq, in August. A renewed assault began at dawn on Monday, when militants driving Humvees and civilian vehicles attacked several Yazidi residential compounds, forcing the Yazidi to retreat up the mountain.

"We are outnumbered and outgunned. We don't know how long we can hold them off," said Ali Qasem, a Yazidi volunteer on the mountain.

Qasem said most families had already fled by the time IS arrived, but some could not leave and remained trapped in residential complexes to the east of the mountain.

U.S. President Barack Obama authorized air strikes in Iraq in August, citing the duty to prevent an impending genocide of Yazidis at the hands of IS militants after they overran a vast swathe of northern Iraq.

The air strikes helped Kurdish forces turn the tide against IS in the north and relieved some of the pressure on Sinjar so that a corridor could be opened to evacuate thousands of Yazidis from the mountain.

However, the mountain is still under threat, and the air strikes have not prevented IS from gaining ground elsewhere in Iraq as well as neighbouring Syria, where they have been attacking the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab.

A Yazidi parliamentarian questioned why U.S. planes were striking IS positions in Kobani but not Sinjar. He said the militants sought to control the mountain to gain a strategic refuge near the border with Syria.

"Unfortunately, coalition planes are in the sky and can see the tanks, but they are not striking them," said Yazidi parliamentarian Mahama Khalil, also on the mountain. "Why do they defend Kobani and not Sinjar?"

Monday's attack was one of several along the front line between IS and Kurdish forces, which runs more than 1,000 kilometres from the Syrian border to Iraq's eastern Diyala province, near the frontier with Iran.

Militants disguised in Kurdish clothes tried to overrun the town of Qara Tapa in Diyala on Monday and later drove a tanker rigged with explosives into Kurdish lines in the Wana district, killing as many as 15 peshmerga, according to two officials.

Wana is around 40 km northwest of Mosul, near Iraq's largest dam, which was seized by IS in August before the U.S. air strikes drove the militants back and Kurdish peshmerga retook it.

A senior civil servant in the office of the Kurdistan region's president said recent IS attacks in the north aimed to divert the Kurds' attention to create an opening for another offensive against the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and Khanaqin town in Diyala.

"They have strategic interests there, too, but their grand strategy is Kirkuk and other Kurdish areas in Diyala to encircle Baghdad," Ari Mamshae said.

In a statement late on Monday, IS said it had carried out an attack on the "secularist Yazidi militias" and destroyed one of their shrines.

"The advances are continuous and the armies that liberated Nineveh and Ayn al-Arab are taking another step towards the Mosul dam, to which the mujahideen are very close".

(Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Larry King)

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/2 ... YW20141022

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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:57 pm

Below are edited extracts of desperate tweets

Situation in Shingal: IS terrorists started with an offensive on the mountains and March on the pilgrimage site of Sherfedîn from West to East and also attack Sherfedin from the North

The civilians, as well as the resistance fighters are completely surrounded by IS

Commanders of the Defense units desperately to call air strikes, without which the advance of IS

It might be too late for the people on Shingal - IS probably cannot be stopped at this late stage

Some 7,000 civilians are threatened by a massacre

The resistance fighters are saving a bullet each for themselves - and if nobody comes to help they will shot themselves rather than fall into the hands of IS
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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:08 pm

The advance of the terrorists continues; heavy explosions near Borik, more terrorists reach South of Mt Shingal

Ezidi fighter on Sherfedîn: "the electricity is down and the terrorists are coming up the mountains and after tonight, no one will be alive.

We need heavy weapons, airstrikes and help from outside the Mt Shingal"

30 minutes ago air strikes started in Shingal and fighters killed dozens of ISIL terrorists!

Over 80 ISIS were arrested by forces on the ground
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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:10 pm

The world seems to have lost interest in Yazidis :((
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Re: Yezidi: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:18 pm

UN Accuses Islamic State of Attempted Genocide as Fighters Renew Assault on Iraq's Yazidis
By John Beck

A renewed offensive by the Islamic State (IS) against Iraq's Yazidi minority population is likely to be attempted genocide, a UN official has warned.

The extremist group advanced towards northeastern Mount Sinjar on Monday, attacking Yazidi areas and sending residents fleeing.

Ivan Simonovic, the UN assistant secretary-general for human rights told reporters on Tuesday that evidence suggested "[IS] actions against Yazidis may amount to attempted genocide."

Thousands of Yazidis are still stranded on the mountain, where they fled to escape IS attacks on the area in August that killed hundreds and displaced tens of thousands. Yazidis follow an ancient religion incorporating elements of Islam and indigenous beliefs, but IS views them as "devil worshippers."

It was that crisis which led US President Barack Obama to begin airstrikes on IS targets in Iraq, in order to halt their advance on Sinjar and avert a feared humanitarian catastrophe. The US also dropped aid to those seeking refuge on the mountain.

Since then evidence of atrocities perpetrated by IS against Yazidis has mounted. The group massacred hundreds of men and boys in the Sinjar region and kidnapped hundreds more women and children, according to Amnesty International.

The US provided similar assistance more recently to the Syrian border town of Kobane, which is currently besieged by IS. American aircraft have carried out more than 135 airstrikes in the area since it extended operations into Syria in September, according to US Central Command (CentCom).

Earlier this week American aircraft airdropped arms to the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters defending the town. However, the Pentagon is currently investigating whether some may have fallen into IS hands. Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said at a press conference on Tuesday that its analysts were trying to work out what had happened.

American C-130 planes delivered 27 bundles of weapons, ammunition and medical supplies provided by Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to YPG fighters at dawn on Sunday, according to a CentCom statement. A video posted on YouTube on Tuesday by a group calling itself "A3maq News" purports to show some of the airdropped supplies in the hands of the extremist group. The footage shows a masked and armed militant examining a package attached to a parachute. Later, he looks into crates containing various munitions, including RPG rounds and grenades.

CentCom confirmed in a statement on Monday that one airdropped bundle had missed its target. However, it said it had subsequently been destroyed in a follow-up airstrike to stop it falling into enemy hands.

Kirby said that he could not confirm if the video was authentic or not: "They are certainly of the kinds of material that was dropped... so it's not out of the realm of the possible in that regard," he said, according to the BBC.

The "A3maq News" group that uploaded the video has previously posted IS-linked content and some of the weapons seen in the video appear to match those possessed by Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which supplied the arms.

Airdrops don't always make their marks. US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said in August that around 80 percent of aid dropped on Mt. Sinjar reached its target.

Kobane is surrounded on three sides by IS and is bordered to the north by Turkey. The airdrops were apparently a response to the Turkish government's refusal to grant repeated requests to open a land corridor allowing humanitarian and military supplies into the town.

However, on Monday Ankara announced that it would allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the border. KRG lawmakers were to vote on Wednesday on whether the semi-autonomous region's peshmerga troops should be deployed to Kobane, a move which would effectively bring the Iraqi Kurdistan directly into the Syrian civil war.

The battle for Kobane has raged since IS launched a major offensive last month. Taking the town would be a major propaganda victory for IS and also allow the extremist group to connect territory held in the Syrian province of Aleppo with its stronghold of Raqqa further east. It would also give IS control over a large stretch of the Turkish border.

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Re: UN: IS Attempts Genocide Of Yazidis Again

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:25 pm

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‘My family doesn’t know where to go’: Yezidis under renewed attack
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – From her home in Denmark, Shermin Khalaf reads the news about renewed Islamic State (ISIS) attacks on Yezidis in Shingal, and wonders whether her ancient religious minority has any place left in Iraq.

“ISIS began attacking Kobane, and now they are back in Shingal,” she explained, worried for good reason because her Yezidi family members were among the tides that fled a murderous ISIS assault in August.

The militants, who have been weathering air attacks by a US-led coalition of some 50 nations, launched a major attack Monday against thousands of Yezidis who are surrounded on their sacred mountain in northern Iraq.

In an assault in August, ISIS massacred civilians -- who they consider to be ‘devil worshippers’ -- and sold women into slavery, forcibly converting others. A rescue operation evacuated thousands from the mountain through Syria into Iraqi Kurdistan, but many remained behind.

"I hope that my family and Yezidis have a future in Shingal. But honestly I think they don’t," said Khalaf.

An estimated 7,000 civilians are in danger as ISIS forces draw closer to the religious minority’s last line of defense. ISIS had encircled the group over a week ago, toppling a string of villages along the only exit routes from the mountain.

Meanwhile, Yezidis in Europe with relatives and friends in Shingal say they can do nothing but pray and worry.

All day yesterday, Rozhin Suleiman was on his phone with family members in Shingal.

“They can’t take it anymore; I can’t either," Suleiman said of the strain of watching his family driven from one place to another.

“First they were attacked in Shingal, so they fled to Syria. There, they were attacked again. They returned to Shingal, and now they are in danger again,” he explained. “My family doesn’t know where to go.”

Kheyri Amin, who lives in Germany, also spent all calling her family – but no one answered.

“My fear is that ISIS has kidnapped them," Amin said, voicing the worst fear that comes to the mind of many like her. She hopes that the United States – which began its bombing campaign in Iraq over the Shingal incident – would focus air raids again where Yezidis are most in danger.

Saliha Fetteh, an associate professor of Middle Eastern studies at University of Southern Denmark, fears that "Yezidism will soon be history in Iraq.”

Fetteh, who has lived and studied in Iraq, compares the fate of the Yezidis to those of Iraq’s Jews, who were once one of the oldest religious communities in the world, with hardly a trace remaining now.

"These Jews no longer exist in Iraq. That same way, the Yezidis may risk disappearing from Iraq."

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Re: New ISIL forces on way to Mt Shingal from Mosul/Tel Afar

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:26 pm

Breaking: new ISIL forces are on the way to Mt #Shingal, from Mosul/Tel Afar and the Syrian border

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