On the seven-year anniversary of the genocide at the hands of the Islamic State group (IS), Farhad Barkat, a Yazidi activist and translator, is posting on Twitter in memory of the thousands who died during this time. The northwestern Iraqi town of Sinjar and its surrounding areas, where Farhad lives and works, was the epicenter of the Yazidi genocide. Sinjar, called Shingal in Kurdish, made international headlines when what would be widely recognised as a genocide began, but has since fallen off the radar. Sharing glimmers of hope, Farhad posts photos of sunlight bouncing off of black tarmac of new roads, and new schools with gleaming windows. However, much of Sinjar
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