Yazidi women: EU should recognize Yazidi Genocide

Members of the Yazidi community in Aleppo called on the European Parliament to follow the example of the Belgian Parliament in recognizing the genocide against the Yazidis at ISIS' hands, demanding that Turkey and its mercenaries be held accountable for the war crimes they committed against the Yazidis.

8 July, 2021 04:44

ALEPPO, MOHAMMED ABDO

A few days ago, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Belgian Federal Parliament approved, by majority, a resolution describing the crimes committed by ISIS mercenaries against the Yazidis as “genocide”, in a decision that gives indications mercenaries and their collaborators are held accountable for the crimes they committed in Iraq and Syria, accusing Turkey and its gangs in committing the same crimes.

On this subject, ANHA conducted several meetings with members of the Yazidi House in Aleppo, to shed light on their demands and opinions in this regard.

Co-chair of the Yazidi House in Aleppo, Gola Ghazal, thanked the Belgian Parliament for its decision, calling on the European Union as well to follow the same step and recognize the genocide that committed against the Yazidis.

"What happened to Yazidi can only be described as cultural and ethnic annihilation of our society at all levels, and the scenes have documented part of what happened to us in the twenty-first century," she said.

about the enslavement the Yazidi women in Shengal, after ISIS brutal attack, Gola Ghazal said:" the enslavement of the Yazidi women and the murder of fathers in front of their children only demonstrates brutality in the implementation of the absolute obliterating of history and Yazidi civilization to eradicate them starting from the family."

She also noted the foe of the Yazidi is the same, whether in Shengal or Afrin and the rest of the occupied areas, but the names differ, noting that the crimes committed in Shengal by ISIS are being committed in Afrin by Turkey and its mercenaries who are called themselves "Syrian National Army."

As for the member of the Yazidi House, Rania Jaafar, welcomed the decision of the Belgian Parliament, recalling the abhorrent crimes committed against Yazidis in Shengal, particularly, the most notorious crime in Kocho village, which are considered the most horrific, in which its men and children were killed and its women were enslaved."

In this regard, she continued, "The whole world witness to these crimes committed against us, but remain silent. When we say that human rights are where they are from this tragedy that we lived through, the whole of Europe must recognize the genocide that has occurred against us, and so far thousands of mass graves have not been uncovered."

For the crimes committed in Afrin by Turkey and its mercenaries, Rania denounced the destruction of shrines, holy sites and even cemeteries that used to exist in the region for thousands of years, considering Turkey's practices of killing, kidnapping, looting and cultural smelting as war crimes, "The demographic change that the Turkish occupying state had done in Afrin, the construction of mosques in Yazidi villages, the construction of settlements and the destruction of shrines was also a war crime against the people of Yazidi society'', she concluded.

T/S

ANHA

Yazidi women: EU should recognize Yazidi Genocide

On this subject, ANHA conducted several meetings with members of the Yazidi House in Aleppo, to shed light on their demands and opinions in this regard.