Fate of more than 1190 women, unknown, perpetrators of massacres keep plotting against  Şengal

throughout history, the Yazidis underwent 74 massacres, the last of which was on August 3, 2014, during the attacks of ISIS mercenaries on the district of   Şengal, the home of the Yazidis religious minority, and its people were subjected to extermination, kidnapping and displacement.

On the first day of the attack, 1,293 Yazidis were killed, and according to the statistics of the Yazidi Abducted Liberation Office, 68 religious shrines were vandalized and destroyed, while 80 mass graves were found.

According to the statistics issued by Yezidi institutions, ISIS mercenaries kidnapped 6,417 Yazidis, including 3,548 women and 2,869 men. During the liberation operations, they managed to save 3,537 Yazidis, including 1201 women, 339 men, 1,043 girls, and 954 boys.

The Yazidi women and children were transferred to the areas controlled by ISIS mercenaries in Iraq and Syria, while some of them, to Turkey, according to Najla Saeed Ismail, a survivor  after being released from the grip of ISIS 7 years later.

The co-chair of the Yazidi House in Al-Jazira region, Laila Ibrahim, told ANHA agency that more than 1,190 Yazidi women are still unaccounted for.

Laila Ibrahim said: "In 2014, ISIS mercenaries invaded   Şengal district and its suburbs and villages, and they carried out massacred and enslaved the Yazidis."

She added, "Thousands of women were kidnapped and killed, and enslaved and slaveholders of the mercenaries who used various types of torture against them. Throughout history, we went through many massacres, all of them at the hands of the Ottomans, to exterminate the Yazidis."

Leila explained: "The Yazidi people are a peaceful and benevolent people who coexist with all the components as brothers and have not attacked anyone, but despite that there are enemies to them, the first of which is the Turkish occupation."

To liberate the kidnapped women, a committee was established to liberate Yazidi women in the northeastern regions of Syria, and accordingly, dozens of them were liberated at the hands of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the People's Protection Units and Women during the liberation of the areas from ISIS mercenaries.

The governments of Iraq and the region are not serious about the issue of releasing the kidnapped women.

On October 9, 2020, the federal government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Democratic Party announced an agreement on the administration of   Şengal under the auspices of the United Nations, without consulting the people of   Şengal.

On that, Laila Ibrahim said: “The Yazidis have not recovered from the massacre they were subjected to by the Turkish occupation and ISIS, and instead of their help from the governments of Iraq and the Kurdistan region, agreements and deals are concluded at their expense.”

Laila Ibrahim indicated that the opinion of the Yazidis in   Şengal should be taken into consideration and not be excluded.

At the end of the meeting, the co-chair of the Yazidi House in Al-Jazeera region, Laila Ibrahim, called for the release of the rest of the kidnapped women and said: “Unfortunately, it seems that the issue of the Yazidis has no importance to the Iraqi government and the KRG, because they are not serious about the efforts to liberate the kidnapped.”

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ANHA