The Yazidi genocide seven years on: A slow reckoning ...Kuwait

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In August 2014, the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) swept across Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq, carrying out a series of atrocities against the region's traditionally heterogeneous population.  One community that suffered particularly under IS rule is the Yazidis, a predominantly Kurdish religious minority considered "devil worshippers" and heretics by radical extremists. It is estimated that IS killed around 10,000 Yazidis and displaced hundreds of thousands more, while 6,000 Yazidi women were captured and sold into sexual slavery. Seven years after the start of the atrocities and four years after the defeat of IS in Nineveh's capital Mosul, the pursuit of sa

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