Yazidi genocide

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) committed a genocide against the Yazidis 



  in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. The ISIS killed as many as 5,000 men, and sold as many as 10,000 Yazidi women as slaves. 

  Some boys were also enslaved by the ISIS. 


Findings

In November 2015, the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) issued the first legal analysis to conclude that the ISIS was committing a genocide against the Yazidis. 

The USHMM recorded extensive accounts of mass rape, torture, displacement, kidnapping and forced conversions targeting the Yazidis. Over 800,000 Yazidis were displaced by ISIS's genocidal campaign.

Reactions


Iraq

Kurdistan Regional Government

On August 3, 2024, the Kurdistan Regional Government commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide. The Kurdistan Regional Government said that it supported the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da'esh/ISIL (UNITAD) to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Free Yezidi Foundation

Pari Ibrahim of the Iraqi Kurdistan-based Free Yezidi Foundation said to the Voice of America (VOA):

Germany

The German parliament voted in January 2023 to recognize the Yazidi genocide. The Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, made a speech confirming this.

United States

The United States Department of State recognized the Yazidi genocide twice, in 2016 and again in 2017. On March 14, 2016, the United States House of Representatives voted unanimously by 393-0 that ISIS's war crimes against the Yazidis, Syriac Christians, Shias and other groups were acts of genocide.

United Kingdom

The UK Government acknowledged the Yazidi genocide in August 2023.

United Nations

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) stated in March 2015 that ISIS's war crimes against the Yazidis were a genocide.

Related pages

 Katyn massacre
 Bosnian genocide
 Volhynia massacre
 7 October 2023 attack on Israel
 Yugoslav massacres of Kosovo Albanians during the Kosovo War

Footnotes

References

Category:Islam
Category:Yazidis
Category:Genocide
Category:Islamism
Category:History of Asia