By Telim Tolan: On behalf of General Qasim Shesho, commander of the Yezidi Defense Forces at sanctuary Sherfedin and accompanied by Hasim Mir Tashin Beg, son of the secular leader of all Yezidis, Mir Tashin Beg, Telim Tolan, leader of the Central Council of Yezidis in Germany, has met today with representatives of the Kurdistan…
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Category Archives: Yazidis
Psychological impacts on Yezidis
By Bnar Jalal Ali: Mount Sinjar, for the 37th time, was the savior of Yezidis when more than 20,000 from Sinjar fled there after ISIS militants took over the city, killing many and kidnapping hundreds of women. Yezidis fled in bare feet, many dying from hunger and dehydration under the burning sun. The scenes from…
Kamal Mirawdeli to British Prime Minister: There is no crisis because it is our ISIS
By Kamal Mirawdeli: Kurdish writer Kamal Mirawdeli has written a strongly-worded letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron: In his letter Mirawdeli says: I write in these strong words because I have nothing but words and know that words weigh up to nothing in your wonderful civilized world. I am proud to be Kurdish and…
Yezidi Task Force reports dramatic situation in refugee camps: humanitarian disaster and ‘potential for mass suicides’
Press statement by the Central Council of Yezidis in Germany: Leader of the Central Council of Yezidis in Germany, Telim Tolan formed a task force with a delegation of doctors from the association “Kurdish Doctors in Germany” and a ZDF (German public TV station) camera team, travelling through the refugee camps in South Kurdistan since…
Hoping and Waiting Away from Home
By Shenah Abdullah: These days, one’s identity is of great significance and, wherever you go, people’s ethnic and religious backgrounds are emphasized. “We are Arab-Shabak and Shi’a from Telkif,” “We are Kurdish-Shabak and Shi’a from Bartilla,” “We are Yezidis from Shexan,” “They are Yezidis from Shangal” , etc. Each group and each family tries to…
Yazidi (in Kurdish Ezadi) Relief Fund
Press Release by Kurdish American Yazidi Relief Fund: Although Kurdish and international humanitarian organizations are ceaselessly continuing to provide food, clean water, sanitation and shelter for the tens of thousands of Yazidi (in Kurdish Ezadi; followers of one of the most ancient pre-Islamic religions in the world) refugees, the enormity of the calamity is too overwhelming…
Tragedy of Yazidis: Challenges and Directions of International Relief Aid in Kurdistan
By Dr Amir Sharifi: We still remember the ubiquitously ghastly images of tens of thousands of tired, traumatized, sunburned, bedraggled, de-hydrated, and beaten Yazidi refugees. The images are too haunting to forget: a mother still clinging to her dead child, tears streaming down the cheeks of a young daughter, a woman telling the shocking tale…
Why the tragedy of Yazidi Kurdish women should unite the world
By Arian Mufid: The night of 2nd-3rd August was one we should have anticipated: when the Kurdish nation suffered at the hands of people who have the same roots as the perpetrators of the Anfal of 1988, which was comparable to the Jewish Holocaust. On that dreadful, recent night when the Islamic State (IS) attacked Sinjar, no…
IS guilty of sexual violence against women and children says UN
KT News: The ‘Islamic State’ group (IS, also known as ISIS) has been accused by senior United Nations (UN) representatives of systematic sexual violence and child abuse, among its other barbaric acts, in Iraq and Kurdistan.“We are gravely concerned by continued reports of acts of violence, including sexual violence against women and teenage girls and boys…
KCK: Kurdistan Defense Forces will defend existence and freedom of Yazidi community
By the KCK Co-Presidency: On 14th August 2007, our Yazidi people in the Shiba and Shex Khidir villages of Shingal suffered a bloodthirsty massacre in which 450 Yazidi Kurds lost their lives. We vehemently condemn the perpetrators of this massacre and remember with respect the victims of the massacre. KCK declared as martyrs those who…
The IS Genocidal War against Yazidi Kurds & the Plea for the US & International Relief & Protection
Press Release: Demonstration called by the Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group and Kurdish Community of Southern California Time: August 12 / 11:30-3:30 Place: 1000 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90024 The immense suffering of the Yazidi Kurds has reached such colossal and unprecedented levels of death, destruction, displacement, and despair that is now being appropriately…
The Shengal Tragedy and the Threat of Genocide
By Shakhawan Shorash: The Yezidi Kurds (1), who have their own religion and faith, have always suffered oppression. They were on the verge of annihilation under the Ottomans and faced ethnic cleansing from the Arabization policies under the Ba’ath regime. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, they have been a target for extreme Islamist terrorists…
Kurds ‘re-take two towns’, US makes more air-strikes to protect Erbil
KT News: Kurdish peshmarga forces have recaptured the towns of Guwair and Makhmur from ‘Islamic State’ (IS) group jihadists, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters today. Asked how long the United States would have to continue airstrikes to help the Kurds defeat IS, Hoshiyar Zebari said: “As President Obama said, there is no time limit.”…
Holocaust Museum condemns IS ‘genocide’ against Yazidi Kurds
KT News: As the US military launched air-strikes against ‘Islamic State’ (IS) positions close to south Kurdistan, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned IS “crimes against humanity” committed against religious minorities in Iraq, calling the attacks on Yazidi Kurds genocidal. “Of greatest immediate concern is the fate of up to 50,000 Yazidi civilians estimated…
Appeal for US and international support for Kurdish Yazidi refugees
By Dr. Amir Sharifi: Open Letter to US President, UN General Secretary, Emergency Relief Coordinator, the Directors of NNICFF and UNHCR,WFP, WHO Sign the Petition The Kurdish American Education Society and Human Rights Advocacy Group join the International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, and the National Council of Churches to appeal to the US government…
