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…
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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…
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