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Ten Shocking Things I Heard in Shingal

Written on July 14, 2016 by Editor in ISIS, Kurdistan, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L Beam: I visited Shingal four times in April, May and June, 2016. I talked to a lot of people in Sinony, in tents on the mountain, and living in Shingal (Sinjar) city on the south side. I am trying to understand how I can help the displaced Ezidis and also the…

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The West’s Immoral Refusal To Rescue Ezidi Women

Written on June 9, 2016 by Editor in ISIS, KRG, UK, UN, USA, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On June 2, 2016, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon addressed the UN Security Council on sexual violence in conflict.  He stated “It is estimated that the Ezidi community gave the Islamic State up to $45 million in ransom payments in 2014 alone.” It is irresponsible for the UN Secretary General…

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Yazidi Girl Blinded on Her Final Escape from Daesh

Written on May 15, 2016 by Editor in ISIS, Kurd news, Women's rights, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: Eighteen-year-old Lamya Haji Bishar was captured by Daesh (ISIS) on August 15, 2014, when they attacked her village of Kocho on the southeast side of Shengal Mountain. She was immediately separated from her mother and held in Tal Afar for 20 months before her escape was organized. Her 12-year-old brother…

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Escaped Yazidi Girl Pleads with UK Parliamentarians to Rescue Kidnapped Women and Children

Written on March 14, 2016 by Editor in Genocide, Iraq, ISIS, Kurd news, UK, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: Salwa Khalaf Rasho, an 18-year-old Yezidi who escaped Islamic State captivity after eight months, met today in London in several private meetings to plead for help in rescuing over 3100 Yezidis still kidnapped by ISIS. She was accompanied to the meetings with activists Jemal Bailoz Shaveshyan, Dr. Amy L. Beam,…

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Yazidi Translators’ Treacherous Escape from Shingal to Germany

Written on December 13, 2015 by Editor in Iraq, ISIS, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Syria, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: Nayf’s Journey At daybreak, December 8, one of my Yazidi translators, Nayf, landed safely in the Greek Island of Chios in a rubber boat with his fiancée and her family of six. This was their second attempt after failing to make it to Kos Island from Bodrum last week. They…

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Three Killed in Shingal Clash Between Yazidis and Kurds over ‘Stolen’ Sheep

Written on November 27, 2015 by Editor in KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Peshmerga, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: In the afternoon of November 25, 2015, a clash over the ownership of sheep resulted in the death of two Yazidi Peshmerga and reportedly a Kurdish truck driver on the south side of Mount Sinjar (also called Shingal in Kurdish), just north of Shingal city. Leading up to this incident…

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Jacky Sutton, British Journalist: Suspicious Death in Istanbul Airport

Written on October 19, 2015 by Editor in Journalism, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Turkey

By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D.: British journalist Jacky Sutton, 50, travelled from London Heathrow to Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on Saturday night, October 17, but failed to make it onto her next plane to Erbil in Kurdistan, Iraq. According to local media, she was told by airport personnel that she would have to buy a new…

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Nusaybin Kurds Under Seige By Turkish Police

Written on October 5, 2015 by Editor in Kurd news, Kurdistan, Turkey

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: Nusaybin in southeast Turkey has been under siege from Turkish police. Inside of the city of Nusaybin (with many Kurdish residents), no one is allowed to leave his or her house. Even staying inside one’s house, no one can look out of a window for fear of being shot by…

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1 Year After Attack: CYCI Liberates Yezidi Girls from Islamic State

Written on August 2, 2015 by Editor in ISIS, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: I, Amy L. Beam, am an American human rights activist, researcher and writer. Since the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, IS) attack on Shingal, Iraq, on August 3, 2014, in which over 9,000 Yezidis were killed, kidnapped, or sexually enslaved, I have visited all the Kurdish-run Yezidi refugee camps in…

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Turkey’s Treachery: Missile Strikes on PKK Martyrs Cemetery

Written on July 27, 2015 by Editor in Erdogan, ISIS, Kurd news, Kurdistan, PKK, Turkey, USA

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On July 25, 2015, Turkey launched simultaneous missile attacks into Syria against Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh) targets and into Qandil, Kurdistan, against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) who have been the leading force fighting ISIS. Turkey stated its attack in the Qandil region was to destroy arms and munitions storage…

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What Yezidi Sex Slaves Need: Money, Immigration, Revenge

Written on July 17, 2015 by Editor in Iraq, KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Women's rights, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam:  MONEY Many people want to help the Yezidi people who were viciously attacked, slaughtered, and kidnapped last August in Shingal, Iraq, but they do not know who to trust with a donation. I have sat in the tents and one-room container homes of many Yezidi women who have escaped from…

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Zilan Valley Massacre – July 13, 1930

Written on July 13, 2015 by Editor in Genocide, History, Kurdistan, Turkey

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: Eighty-five years ago, the Turkish military slaughtered between 7,000 and 15,000 Kurds in less than a week in Zilan Valley in North Kurdistan (southeast Turkey). Some historians put the figure at 47,000 Kurds killed by the Turkish state.

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Kurdistan Genocide Office Prepares Cases for Prosecutions

Written on July 6, 2015 by Editor in Genocide, ISIS, KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: The Genocide Office to Identify Crimes Against Kurdish People Outside of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was established in Duhok, Kurdistan, in September 2014, under the Kurdistan Ministry of Interior.  It serves Kurds, Yezidis, Christians and other minorities who suffered at the hands of the Islamic State jihadists (also referred…

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Yezidi Mass Exodus from Turkey Fails

Written on July 5, 2015 by Editor in Kurd news, Kurdistan, Refugees, Turkey, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On June 26, 2015, Shengal Yezidis from refugee camps in southeast Turkey, began a mass exodus to the Bulgarian border. They were hopeful of leaving Turkey and entering Bulgaria or camping out between borders to gain the attention of the international community. They are pleading with countries to open their…

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Yezidis Want Mass Exodus from Turkey

Written on June 25, 2015 by Editor in KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Turkey, Yazidis

By Dr Amy L. Beam: Over 20,000 Yezidis from Shingal, Iraq, have been living in refugee camps in southeast Turkey since September, 2014.  They do not want to face a second winter stuck in tents or over-crowed rooms in Turkey.  They are faced with choosing between three deeply problematic options: remain living in refugee camps…

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