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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Category Archives: Yazidis
Traumatised Yazidis Call for Help and Freedom for Captive Loved Ones
By Thomas Phillips: On Saturday 4th April, the displaced Yazidis in Sirnak refugee camp held a demonstration calling for international protection and freedom for their kidnapped friends and family. About 100 women, men and children marched from the makeshift hospital to the makeshift school carrying placards and chanting “down, down ISIS”. The demonstrators demanded freedom for…
Yazidis Demonstrate for International Protection and Asylum
By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On March 23, 2015, 1500 Yazidis demonstrated in Brussels to plea for International Protection and aid from countries of the world. They were supported by demonstrations of thousands of Yazidis in Europe and refugee camps in Turkey and Iraq holding up signs written in both Arabic and English for the…
Beytüşşebap Was Our Shingal
By Dr. Amy L. Beam: A year has passed since I went to a wedding in Beytüşşebap and promised to return with an interpreter. Now there’s a new baby and Denize is getting married to her cousin in Van. Only four months ago she had dressed up in her khaki guerilla clothes and Kurdish neck…
Kurdish-Jewish Covenant of Friendship Azadi Shalom
By Dr. Jan Best de Vries: Winter has arrived in Kurdistan and many babies born in the cold tents of the fugitives from the killers of the “Islamic State” will die. My bodyguard Azad Kardoi and I visited in Erbil a camp of 62 tents within a church compound and are sure that the inhabitants…
Women Gyn Doctors Urgently Needed by Yazidi Refugees
By Dr. Amy L. Beam: Over 400 Yazidi girls and women have escaped from the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria and made their way to Dohuk in northern Iraq. Some have been bought back for ransoms. Since their kidnapping last August 2014 from their homes in Shingal, Iraq,…
International terrorism and the threat of genocide: A new dimension of genocide study
By Shakhawan Shorash: The crime of genocide is the destruction of a targeted people due to differences in religious faith, ethnicity, or other factors that the perpetrators do not tolerate. Perpetrators of genocide attack their victims with the intent to destroy. This intention of destruction is old in history, going back to the first time…
Yazidi Genocide: How Faisal’s Family Was Massacred
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: Faisal Mahmud Kharow is an Ezidi from Shingal, Iraq. Twelve members of his family were mercilessly executed and 22 females and a ten-day-old infant boy were kidnapped on August 3, 2014, during the genocidal attack on Shingal by Islamic State gangs. I interviewed Faisal in Germany, where he now lives…
Ezidi Refugees Beaten Back at Turkish-Bulgarian Border
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: Turkey let 200 Ezidis refugees from Diyarbakir Fidanlik Park camp leave Turkey without any documents. They chartered 3 buses and rode 30 hours to the Bulgarian border arriving on Dec. 21 before dark. By early the next morning, they were imprisoned. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin…
Broken lives
By Dr. Sherzad Al-Khalifa: Just imagine yourself: You have a house to return to every day, you prepare your children in the morning to go to school; you make food for the family; you feed them when they come back home; you have a TV and you wait for your favourite programme; you cover yourself at night with a warm blanket; you…
EU’s Resolution on Yazidis: Read Between the Lines
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: As reported by ekurd.net Nov. 20, the European Parliament held a special conference to address the Yazidi refugees (also spelled Ezidi) who suffered a genocidal attack on Aug. 3, 2014, by the Islamic State (also referred to as Daesh, ISIS, and ISID). The European Parliament passed the following Resolution: Urgent assistance…
Turkey’s Refugee Law as Applied to Iraqis
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: Mass Exodus of Iraqi Yazidis to Turkey On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State (also referred to as Daesh or ISIS) attacked the Yazidis’ (also spelled Ezidis’) homeland in Shengal, Iraq, on the northwest border with Syria. This is the 74th documented massacre against the Yazidis who are neither Muslim…
Turkey’s Double Standard Policy Toward the Kurds
By Shakhawan Shorash: Under the rule of the AKP and Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s leadership, Turkey shows itself to be a democratic state, a supporter of human rights, and a protector of oppressed Muslim minorities. Turkey has previously hosted the international peace conferences and the conferences of the Islamic Cooperation Organization (ICO). Erdogan supports the Palestine people…
Ezidi Refugees Can Get Iraq Passports in Istanbul
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: Ezidis living in refugee camps in Turkey or certain areas in Iraq can now travel to the Iraq Consulate General in Istanbul to apply for an Iraqi passport. When the Islamic State (Daesh) gangs attacked their towns and villages on August 3-4, 2014, in Shingal, northeast Iraq, they ran for…
When the Music Stopped for Waleed, a Blind Ezidi Boy
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: Four-year-old Waleed was born blind. When the Islamic State gangs attacked Shingal, Iraq, on August 3, 2014, his family fled on foot to Mount Shingal along with 70,000 other Ezidis. They were stranded on the mountain for eight days until the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) opened an escape route for…
