The international community should help them return to their homes and bring perpetrators to justice BY: Knox Thames It’s August 2014 in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar. The police have fled; the army had crumbled. ISIS is rampaging and rolls into Sinjar...
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The international community should help them return to their homes and bring perpetrators to justice BY: Knox Thames It’s August 2014 in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar. The police have fled; the army had crumbled. ISIS is rampaging and rolls into Sinjar that summer. The international community is asleep—and the Yazidis (Ezidis) are defenseless. ISIS perpetrates the unthinkable—men and boys are slaughtered, while women and girls enslaved and raped—all because they believe in something different. A genocide happened on our watch. August 3 is the day the Yazidi community marks as the start of their genocide. Many are pausing to remember what happened just eight years ago and to re- Lalish ” 49 “ 3
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