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The genocide of Yazidis in Iraq marks 10 years

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The genocide of Yazidis in Iraq marks 10 years

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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 4, 2024, p. 18

More than 2,600 people, half of them children, remain missing and 200,000 remain displaced in Iraq or in limbo as irregular migrants in Europe. On August 3, 2014, the jihadist organization Islamic State attacked the cradle of the Yazidi community in Sinjar, Iraq, with countless bombs. In the photo, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, who demands, on the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the massacre of her people, that the international community charge the extremists arrested in connection with the case with the crime of genocide.