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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:04 am

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Iraqi Interior Minister visits Shengal

Iraq's Interior Minister Osman al-Ghanmi, accompanied by the Chief of General Staff, has traveled to Shengal on Monday to discuss with the military the implementation of the controversial agreement on the administration of the Yazidi region

Iraqi Interior Minister Osman al-Ghanmi has traveled to Shengal to consult with the military in the governorate of Nineveh on the implementation of the controversial agreement on the administration of the main Yazidi settlement area.

This was announced by a department spokesman in Baghdad on Monday. Al-Ghanmi flew to Shengal in the morning accompanied by Iraqi Chief of General Staff Ali Abdullah Ayyoub and several officers. It is unclear whether the minister will also meet with representatives of the self-government.

A conflict between the Iraqi government and the Yazidi population is emerging in Shengal. The background to this is the so-called Shengal Agreement, which was reached between Baghdad and the Barzani party KDP last October under pressure from the USA and Turkey.

The agreement, which was reached without the involvement of the affected population, provides for the dissolution of the security forces (Asayîşa Êzîdxanê) established after the genocide of the terrorist militia ISIS against the Yazidi community and in order for Baghdad and Hewlêr (Erbil) to be entrusted with all administrative, political and security-related tasks.

The Shengal Democratic Autonomous Council (Meclîsa Xweseriya Demokratîk a Şengalê, MXDŞ) had already declared early on that it would not accept the agreement and called on both the Iraqi central government and the leadership in the Kurdish autonomous region to recognize the Yazidis' right to self-determination. Most recently, Iraq had again demanded the withdrawal of Yazidi security forces and set a deadline of April 1 for this.
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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:13 am

Çarşema Sor 14 April

The Yazidi House in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods of Aleppo is preparing to celebrate the Red Wednesday "Çerşema Sor", the Yazidi New Year, which is the first Wednesday of April according to the eastern calendar, which falls on April 14 this year

Çerşema Sor is considered one of the feasts for the people of the Yazidi community and the beginning of the formation of the earth and the start of life on it.

Among the rituals of this day is the boiling of eggs, in reference to the freezing of the earth, as the shell symbolizes the melting of the layer of ice from the face of the earth, and its color is an indication of roses and flowers of spring, which is the beginning of life.

Rituals

What is striking on this day is the comment of the Yazidi community members of a mixture of anemone leaves, colored egg shells and mud at the entrance to signify the advent of the spring season in which flowers and roses grow in all colors and shapes.

They also spread eggs' shells on agricultural lands to bring goodness and blessings. In this month, it is forbidden to dig up the soil and plow in it, because most of the roses, flowers and plants bloom.

And marriage is prohibited in this month, because they believe that April is a date for the renewal of nature itself.

Preparations for this year

To celebrate Eid this year, the Yazidi House in the city of Aleppo formed a group consisting of 8 young men and 13 children, to present prayers and religious sayings on this.

In addition to forming a children's band to perform at the celebration, as these children receive intensive training as Eid approaches.

In this regard, the co-chair of the Yazidi House in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods of Aleppo city, Kelly Ghazala, congratulated all Yazidis in the world and the Yazidi of Afrin, especially on Red Wednesday.

And she said: "For the third year in a row, we celebrate Red Wednesday away from Afrin and our holy places."

"After the occupation of Afrin by the Turkish state and its mercenaries, the mercenaries deliberately sabotaged the holy sites and plundered our sanctities with the aim of eliminating the Yazidi presence."

Ghazaleh stressed that despite the policy of extermination by the Turkish state and its mercenaries against the Yazidi community, they will not discourage us from our determination and insistence in preserving our religion.

The co-chair of the Yazidi House in Aleppo concluded her speech by saying: "We hope that peace and security will prevail in the four parts of Kurdistan, and Afrin and the rest of the occupied areas in Rojava will be liberated from the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries."

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Çarşema Sor - Day for Resurrection and Renewal of Earth

This is how it is said in the sayings of the Yazidi religion translated from its original language, "Kurdish", on Wednesday and it is completed by invoking God and thanks to King Tawous (Peacock Angel)

Each religion has its own beliefs, rituals, traditions and customs that distinguish it from others, yet in their content they call for the worship of God and His oneness, and that He is the Creator of this earth.

Likewise, the Yazidi religion believes that God is the one who breathed life into the earth on Wednesday, a day of the resurrection of creatures.

And since the Yazidis have lost most of their religious heritage as a result of the constant invasions and massacres, they derive their information from religious hadiths, as it came in "Aferna dinyayê".

    Xwedawendê me înê kir esase

    Şemî boyê berê kirase

    Çarşem boyê kir xilase
Our Lord began creating the universe on Friday, and on Saturday, He began to tailor the robe "ordering everything", and finished his work on Wednesday.

The second Wednesday of April according to the eastern calendar "Kurmancî" is considered a feast for the Yezidi Kurds, and it is called "Red Wednesday", or the Yazidi New Year, as the holiday marks the spring season in which the abundance and growth of flowers and roses of all colors and shapes, and anemones (xecxecok).

Wednesday this year passes, in light of continuous resistance by the Yazidi community to the policies, after the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Iraqi government reached an agreement regarding administrative and security matters in the district of Şengal on October 9, 2020 without referring to the Yazidi community, the Yazidis adhere to their administration And their will in all ways.

More than 130 days ago, the Yazidis took turns in sengal in front of the Asayiş Ezîdxan center, to emphasize their support for the forces that protected them, after the Kurdistan Democratic Peshmerga and the Iraqi army left them vulnerable to ISIS massacres.

The Yazidi community believes that what ISIS mercenaries could not do to erase the Yazidi culture and religion during their targeting of Şengal, the parties to the agreement try to implement it and make the Yazidis are once again in the crosshairs of the firmans and the continuous extermination, without having a legitimate force to protect them.

Head of the Yazidi Religion Department at the Faculty of Religious Sciences at the University of Rojava Kurdistani (Western Kurdistan) Nassim Shamo says that the Yazidi religion indicates that the universe was a dark and fog, and covered with ice, and God sent a “peacock, the king” on Wednesday to the earth in order to find Life in it, by the order of God in the form of a peacock, and descended for the first time in Lalish

The most sacred place of the Yazidis, which is located in the Sheikhan area of ​​Southern Kurdistan, and because of of ice, the Peacock King landed on the Harar tree, (the tree of the Lord's glory), and by the power of the Creator the ice melted by an act of the sun's heat, and the face of the earth was adorned with a suit of flowers and roses in various colors, red, yellow and green, so this day was considered the beginning of spring, and the Yazidi New Year.

According to scholars, until 612 BC, the Kurds celebrated this day as a religious holiday only, but after Kurdistan was watered on this day with the blood of the Kurdish people who achieved victory over the most powerful empires of that period - as on this day they took place An attack on the Kurdish empire of Mîdya - This holiday has become a national and religious holiday at the same time, so that Sheikh “Adi bin Musafir al-Hakkari”, a religious reference for the Yazidis and his mausoleum in Lalish, accepted that.

    Çarşema serî Nîsanê

    ŞêxAdî, şêx Şims xweste dîwanê

    Xwedê berê xwe dide Êzdîxane

    Ewe cejna Kurdistanê
Second Wednesday of April, which is a holiday for Kurdistan

Sheikh Adi asked Sheikh Shams to appear before his hands, because God has looked with mercy to the Yazidis

With the arrival of the feast on the second Wednesday of April according to Eastern Time, the Yezidi religion are preparing for the Eid Çarşemba Sor "Red Wednesday" or the Yazidi New Year, a day of the creation. Eid is one of the blessed and virtuous holidays in the Yazidi religion.

The Eid is also called the Creation Festival, and the Yazidis say that when God created the first living being, Adam, which signifies the beginning of life.

And it came in the religious saying:

    Xwedanê min rehmane

    Çar qismet li ruyê erdê dane

    Yek Av yek bay yek axa û yek ji agir

    qalibê adem jê nijan
Our Lord is Merciful. He divided the earth into four elements; water, dust, air and fire.

On this day, the Yazidis get up early, put on their best clothes, and decorate the entrances to their homes with flowers, anemones and colored egg shells.

At a time when women are busy preparing food, young men and women paint twelve boiled eggs, every three eggs in the color of one of the seasons of the year, and put them in a plate in the middle of the house, and the egg symbolizes the sphericity of the earth, and boiled eggs refer to the frozen ground, and the shell of the egg.

After boiling it symbolizes the melting of the ice layer from the face of the earth, and the coloring of the egg is a reference to the colors of roses and flowers that have opened with the arrival of a Peacock King, meaning spring, and spring is the beginning of life.

People visit the graves of their dead, and the women take eggs, sweets and fruits, and they are distributed on the poor, and that is on Tuesday.

There are ancient traditions for this holiday, including refraining from plowing in this month, because crops, flowers, roses and most plants bloom in this month, and the marriage contract is postponed; as it is believed that a bride will bring woes. As beliefs say that April is a wedding in itself, they even called April the bride of the year: nîsan bûka sale; di ser xwere bûk nine

That is, Nisan, the bride of the year, you do not see a bride more beautiful than her

Also, 365 lamps (jars) are lit throughout.

This year, Wednesday, will witness the establishment of religious rituals only, and avoiding the manifestations of gathering in many regions, due to the outbreak of the Corona pandemic.

A central celebration will be held in Sengal on Wednesday, in the Kli Kurs area, with the participation of a number of artists and orchestras, on April 14th.

In Rojava Kurdistani, the Yazidis are distributed in the Jazira region, Afrin, and the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in the city of Aleppo. Where they used to hold folkloric parties with the Kurdish and Syriac people.

With the start of the July 19 revolution in Western Kurdistan, which brought with it the rights of the minorities, In Rojava Kurdistani, Red Wednesday was declared as an official holiday.

With the start of the Turkish occupation army's attacks on Afrin, the Yazidi villages were directly targeted, a number of people and many of the wounded, and as a result of fear of committing massacres against the Yazidis, and the history of the firmans in Afrin again, Yezidis headed to al-Shahba canton, for the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation army to destroy the religious shrines, the oldest of which was “Parsa Khatun” in the village of Qastal Jindo, which was a destination for the people to request the fulfillment of their wishes. It has an affinity for human morality.

And they were required to convert to Islam and go to mosques against their will, not to mention plundering all Yazidis' property on the pretext that it is permissible for them, hiding under the Islamic Sharia that rejects this in its teachings.

The mercenaries of the Turkish occupation army also destroyed the statue of Zardasht, which was placed in front of the center of the Yazidi Cultural Association, the sole representative of the Yazidi community in Afrin, and they also burned the center of the association.

In the occupied Serekaniyê, too, the Yazidis were subjected to crimes by the occupation mercenaries who plundered more than 8 Yazidi villages and forcibly displaced their residents, while the city of Serêkaniyê had a branch of the Yazidi House in the Jazira region.

The Yazidis were subjected to 74 attacks and genocides that targeted their presence, the last of which was the genocide committed by ISIS mercenaries in Şengal on August 4, 2014.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Apr 15, 2021 3:09 am

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Women fail in compensation claim

Five Yazidi women who say they were held as slaves by the notorious Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf have failed in a high court bid for compensation

Lawyers for the women have told the Guardian they are now considering lodging a complaint with United Nations bodies focusing on “Australia’s duty to provide an effective remedy” for survivors of sexual violence and slavery.

The lawyers have also written to the foreign minister, Marise Payne, seeking details of “any assets owned by or related to Sharrouf which have been frozen by the Australian government” as part of their ongoing battle for compensation.

Sharrouf – an Isis fighter who made international headlines in a photograph standing next to his young son holding a severed human head – is presumed to have died in 2017 in a US airstrike.

He had fled Australia in December 2013 using his brother’s passport with the apparent intention of travelling to Syria, ministers have previously told parliament.

The five women of Yazidi ethnicity at the centre of a protracted legal battle say they were victims of acts of violence in the Syrian city of Raqqa and northern Iraq in 2014.

The women allege that they were “kept as slaves” in Sharrouf’s home, according to documents submitted to the New South Wales civil and administrative tribunal.

The women say Sharrouf subjected them “to degrading treatment, physical and emotional threats, attempted rape, threats of being raped, threats of being killed, being hit with a cable and attempted hitting”, the tribunal documents show.

The women also maintain that they have been helping the Australian federal police with its investigations since 2016.

They sought help under NSW’s Victims Rights and Support Act, which entitles victims of an offence involving “acts of violence” to a payment of up to $10,000 and other forms of support such as counselling.

While the women do not live in Australia, and have been granted refugee status by another country, their lawyers have argued Sharrouf’s acts of violence should be interpreted as falling within the NSW scheme’s scope.

Their lawyers noted the Sydney-born Sharrouf was an Australian citizen whose last known place of residence in Australia was NSW. They also argued Sharrouf’s acts were offences against NSW law, including the identity-related offences behind his departure from Australia.

But those arguments failed to persuade the civil and administrative tribunal or the NSW court of appeal, prompting the women to seek special leave to appeal to the high court of Australia. That request was rejected by the high court last month.

Yasmin Waljee, a London-based partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells International, which is representing the women on a pro-bono basis, said they had argued the legislation “should not be interpreted in such a restrictive manner”.

“We argued that ‘act of violence’ can and should be interpreted as extending to all violent acts which constitute offences under the law of NSW and of the Australia commonwealth – where such offences would be triable in the courts of NSW because they attract extraterritorial jurisdiction,” Waljee told the Guardian.

“Both NSW and Australia have recognised that war crimes, crimes against humanity, terrorism and genocide crimes, recognised also under international law, are so serious as to warrant the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction, so it is unjust to deny access to the compensation scheme to victims of those crimes solely because of the absence of a physical geographical nexus.”

However, in dismissing the application, the high court justices Stephen Gageler and Patrick Keane wrote that there was “insufficient reason to doubt the correctness” of the lower court’s reasoning. They also ordered that the women pay the legal costs.

Waljee, an international human rights lawyer, said the legal team was considering applying to the UN committee against torture or the human rights committee using procedures under human rights treaties.

The focus of any application would be on the duty of states to “provide and finance an effective remedy for survivors” of sexual violence, torture, terrorism, genocide and slavery, “particularly when perpetrated by their own nationals”, Waljee said.

She cited the UN basic principles on the right to remedy and reparations for victims of gross violations of human rights. Such an application would highlight Australia’s duties but would have “wider implications for all states, particularly, where foreign fighters were engaged”.

Waljee said although countries had committed to providing reparations for survivors of genocide, terrorism and torture at an international law level, “there is a failure to implement that commitment at a domestic level as shown by this decision”.

This was, she said, despite the fact that countries “regularly freeze assets and confiscate the assets of those involved in these violations and also regularly impose substantial penalties for breach of sanctions imposed in respect of violations of human rights”.

A leading global human rights advocate, Dr Agnès Callamard, said she was “disappointed to see that Australia did not make available victims’ assistance for the gross violations of human rights endured by these women”.

Callamard – who is now head of Amnesty International but until last month served as UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings – said the world needed to discuss “how reparations should be funded, particularly in the light of the involvement of many thousands of foreign fighters in the Daesh atrocities”.

Esther Dingemans, the acting executive director of the Global Survivors Fund, said survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and other crimes had been “waiting for compensation and reparations for a long time”. She described it as “a global and collective moral imperative”.

Taban Shoresh, the founder of Lotus Flower, an organisation that runs programs in refugee camps in Iraq and has supported the women, said in a statement: “It feels like the women have little state support or sympathy.

“The world’s headlines are no longer reporting on the lack of justice for Yazidi women but we … will continue to support [them].”

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Apr 15, 2021 3:12 am

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Yazidi New Year in Armenia

In the town of Aknalich, the Yazidi people are marking the New Year, as their calendar turns to 6771

That is the traditional date of the birth of the world in their belief, which hails from modern-day Iraq where about half of the world’s one million Yazidis live.

Aknalich has always been a centre of Armenia’s Yazidi people who, with a population of about 35,000, are the country’s largest ethnic minority.

But it took on new significance in 2019 when the largest Yazidi temple in the world was unveiled there.

“Before Christianity, everyone worshipped the sun, like we do,” says Jon Namoyan, 35, a resident of the Yazidi-populated village of Shamiram.

“When the sun peers through the clouds, it’s like God looking down on his children."
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On the square behind him a variety of dance troupes, including one from Armenia’s Assyrian minority, go through their performances.

Cacophonous traditional music blasts continuously from a group on the stage.

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The main temple, known as Quba Mere Diwane, towers off to one side.

A regular procession moves through it, removing their shoes at the entrance before entering to pray at the altar of Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel, who is the primary deity in the Yazidis’ unique cosmology.

Many also stop to pay respects at the grave of Mirza Sloyan, an Armenian Yazidi businessman who paid for the temple’s construction before dying just a month after its opening.

Behind the day’s upbeat artistic performances, though, there is a palpable melancholy.

Along with everyone else in the country, members of the Yazidi community fought in last year’s war between Armenia and its neighbour, Azerbaijan, over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

In 44 days, at least 16 local Yazidis were killed.

“It’s different this year,” says Amad Shaykh, 36. "Coronavirus prevented many of our foreign friends from visiting and many families are at home, in mourning.

“The speeches were dedicated to seven local families who lost their sons and husbands [in the war]."

The Yazidi people are no strangers to tragedy. Their histories hold that they have been the victims of 74 genocides, most recently at the hands of ISIS in 2014, in northern Iraq.

Of the survivors, a few made their way through Armenia. Some settled with distant relatives, but “only a handful", Mr Shaykh says.

Another of those genocides came at the same time as that of the Armenians, in 1915.

At the same time that Armenian villages in eastern Anatolia were being systematically killed by Ottoman troops, the nearby Yazidi populace was also suffering reprisals.

Many sought refuge in the lands that now form Armenia, laying the basis for much of today’s community.

The parallels between the two peoples are not lost on Mr Namoyan.

“When the Turks were slaughtering Armenians, they slaughtered us, too,” he says.

“They tried to force us to convert to Islam but we didn’t accept. Last year they tried it again."

For the Yazidis last year, there was no question as to whether they would stand beside their Armenian neighbours on the battlefield.

“Of course we served in the army,” says Vital Sloyan, 48, another Shamiram resident.

“Armenia is our country too and it was under attack. We were proud to stand with our Armenian brothers."

The Yazidi members of Armenia’s army and associated volunteer militias were well publicised during the war, and well organised.

Temur Khudoyan, 28, director of the Yazidi TV channel Lalish TV, says that local Yazidis fought in their own units and in the Armenian army.

“When the war started, Yazidi community leaders started to organise those who wished to fight,” Mr Khudoyan says.

That was partly co-ordinated by Rustam Bakoyan, an Armenian MP who holds the Parliament seat reserved for the minority.

In all, three Yazidi volunteer detachments served on the front lines in Karabakh. Many fought in areas hardest hit by the fighting, including those captured by Azerbaijan.

The losses have not affected the local community’s appreciation for their homeland.

“We are an ancient people but we don’t have a state,” Mr Shaykh says.

“In the 2014 genocide (in Iraq), over 100,000 Yazidis became refugees. It makes you appreciate safe places like Armenia.”

Mr Khudoyan agrees.

“This is the only country in the world where Yazidis are taught at school in their own language,” he says.

“All our rights are protected here. We can preserve our culture, our religion, our identity. We have a future in Armenia.

As the festivities wind down, Mr Namoyan delivers the most optimistic outlook yet.

“There’s a story about a prophet in Greece,” he says. “This prophet foresaw that Constantinople would one day be Christian again.

"Turkey will be divided into three or four parts. The Greeks will take one part, the Armenians another, and we Yazidis will take ours. Everything will be great.”

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Call upon all Yazidis to unite

Yazidi women in Aleppo condemned the schemes against Shengal and urged Yazidis to struggle in unity and to claim their identity

Six years have passed since the ISIS massacre in Shengal. However, threats against the Yazidi community continue. Most recently, the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) have signed an agreement which disregards the will of the Yazidi community. The Yazidi people designate the agreement as the continuation of the genocide.

The Yazidis in Shengal organized demonstrations in front of the Ezidxan Asayish (Public Security) to protest the agreement. Furthermore, Yazidis took to the streets all over the world in protest at the agreement.

“EVERYONE SHOULD SUPPORT THE YAZIDI FORCES”

Ranya Cefer, member of the Yazidi House Coordination in Aleppo, celebrated the Yazidi holy festival, Çarşema Sor (Red Wednesday), saying: “A dirty policy is being implemented against the Yazidi people. Therefore, all Yazidis should protect the Êzidxan Asayish. Everyone should actively participate in the ‘We are all Êzidxan Asayish’ campaign. Likewise, the international community should take responsibility."

"THE GENOCIDE CONTINUES"

A young Yazidi woman named Rocîn Qelender remarked that: “The Turkish state has always wanted to annihilate us throughout history. Recently it is trying to do the same in Afrin and Shengal. Therefore, we should come together around our belief and claim our struggle. We must protect our culture. We want the occupation of the Turkish state to end and Leader Abdullah Öcalan to be free.”

"WE SUPPORT SHENGAL RESISTANCE"

Another Yazidi woman Yara Hisko noted that the Çarşema Sor has not been celebrated in Afrin for the last 3 years. "No matter how much they attack, they cannot lay hands on our will. We will keep the Yazidi belief flourish under all conditions.

We support the resistance in Shengal. Our unity shows that they are defeated. We want a brotherhood of the peoples," Hisko added.
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Beekeeper turned spymaster

Seven years after Yazidi women and children were kidnapped and enslaved by the Islamic State in Iraq, thousands are still missing. Abdullah Shrem has built a secret network of cigarette smugglers and willing helpers who are risking their lives to find and liberate them

Abdullah Shrem, 46, at his home near Duhok in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Among the tools he used to help find and rescue Yazidis captured by the Islamic State were detailed maps and a network of contacts in Iraq and Syria. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)

He hasn't kept bees or sold honey in years and he's no longer living in Sinjar.

But Abdullah Shrem is still known to many as the beekeeper of Sinjar, his ancestral lands in the district of Sinjar in northwest Iraq. There's even a book titled after him.

In 2014, he parlayed his honey-buying contacts in neighbouring Syria into a network of potential saviours for Yazidi women and children enslaved by ISIS when it swept across the Yazidi heartland in northwest Iraq in August of that year.

Condemned as infidels by ISIS, thousands of men, boys and older women belonging to the religious and ethnic minority were slaughtered. The United Nations declared it a genocide.

More than 6,000 women and children were taken captive, according to the Kurdish regional government. Many of them were sold into sexual slavery or given to ISIS militants as rewards.

The fierce battle to clear Sinjar of ISIS militants back in 2015 destroyed much of the city, once a large centre of Yazidi life. Only a fraction its residents have returned. (Stephane Jenzer/CBC)

"When ISIS came, 56 members of my family were captured," Shrem said in an interview with CBC News from the village of Khanke, not far from the city of Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan, where he now lives.

"I never had a plan to rescue people, but it was the human thing to do and God helped me."

The 46-year-old says the first person he managed to retrieve successfully was at the end of 2014. It was one of his nieces. Word quickly spread and people started coming to him for help.

Canadian mothers in ISIS detention camp fear their children are being judged on the actions of their parents

Raqqa, once the home base of ISIS, still traumatized as it tries to resume normal life

Shrem's business contacts in Aleppo advised him to get in touch with cigarette smugglers already risking their lives by moving goods forbidden by ISIS in and out of the so-called caliphate.

In other words, if they were caught, their punishment was always likely going to be death, he said.

Almost seven years after ISIS waged a genocidal campaign of violence against the Yazidi people of northern Iraq, they are still waiting for justice and help. Hundreds of thousands are displaced and many believe without international assistance, there is no path forward to rebuild their lives. 6:35

Soon he had a network of informants.

"We were like an organized intelligence agency so that we planned and implemented our activities by ourselves," Shrem said.

Many of the captured women wound up in the Syrian city of Raqqa, a former ISIS stronghold.

Shrem rented a bakery there and turned the employees delivering bread to different neighbourhoods into his eyes and ears.

He also recruited a woman who went door to door selling children's clothing. Her access to the women of a household along with her presence of mind made it possible for her to ascertain who was a servant or a slave and who wasn't.

"People say that only men can do this job, but she had the most important role because she could easily go into houses," Shrem said.

Shrem estimates that he has helped rescue almost 400 Yazidis who were kidnapped and enslaved by ISIS. 'Up to now, the Iraqi government has not helped us or the missing Yazidi women,' he said. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)

He still has his original notebook with sketches and drawings of various extraction plans. One shows a series of headstones and instructions for a woman to visit a cemetery where a contact would be waiting.

He says they used the militants' own extremism against them.

"It was a positive for us that ISIS forces all women to cover their faces," he said. "If we wanted to rescue a girl aged 16, we created an ID for her and changed the age to 70 because ISIS wasn't going to remove the face cover."

His most challenging rescues, he says, were those involving four deaf and mute women. He videotaped relatives signing messages and instructions and then got them to the used clothes seller, who played them for the women. They all made it back to Iraq.

Some operations took months, he said, because the seller couldn't return to the same houses too often.

The intense bombing campaign to root out militants left Sinjar in ruins. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)

All in all, Shrem says he helped liberate 399 individuals. And the job's not over. An estimated 3,000 women and children taken by ISIS remain unaccounted for.

Many may well have been killed in the battles to defeat ISIS and the airstrikes that came with them, but Shrem believes some are still alive in Syria and in need of help.

"Yes, our activities are still ongoing," he said. "But the reality is that after the liberation [of ISIS-held territory], our tasks became much harder."

The Yazidi women who were captured by ISIS and raped now find themselves unable to return to their community without abandoning their children. 4:07

Raqqa fell to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) backed up by U.S. air power in the fall of 2017, but it was more than a year later that ISIS was finally defeated in Syria in the battle of Baghouz in the spring of 2019.

It's thought that many captive Yazidis might still be with ISIS fighters or families who escaped the final days of fighting in Syria, possibly to the city Idlib, where various Islamist groups are still fighting the Syrian regime, or to Turkey, where many ISIS fighters were recruited.

After seven long years, some of those taken as children may no longer remember who they are. Others were sent to indoctrination schools to be trained as fighters or suicide bombers.

Shrem admits that some women may have decided to hide their identities for fear of having children fathered by their ISIS captors taken from them.

The Yazidi spiritual council has issued a decree stating that women wanting to keep those children should be shunned by the community.

'The international community is not aware of us'

According to Shrem, one of the biggest problems in trying to trace missing Yazidi women is a lack of funds to pay ransoms and smugglers.

In the early days, much of it was raised through private donations. For a time, the Kurdish regional government's Office for Kidnapped Yazidis offered compensation for families who had to pay to get their loved ones back. But that money has dried up.

"The problem is the international community is not aware of us, and up to now, the Iraqi government has not helped us or the missing Yazidi women," said Shrem.

A view of Sinjar. Some of the Yazidis who have returned told CBC they feel they have no future there. Shrem is one of the residents who has not returned. He now lives in Khanke in Iraqi Kurdistan. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)

He is both modest and matter-of-fact in demeanour. He enjoys explaining the complexity of the operations he spearheaded and is clearly proud of all the people he's managed to save.

But he also carries the weight of all those he couldn't.

Of the 56 members of his own family he sought to find and bring home, 16 are still missing.

Some of those helping in the search for the missing behind enemy lines also paid with their lives, including the woman who sold baby clothes. She was caught by ISIS and executed.

Fifty-six of Shrem's family members were missing when he began his efforts. Sixteen of them are still missing. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)

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The Shengal Democratic Autonomy Council (MXDŞ) has announced that it will maintain resistance to outside intervention until the recognition of an autonomous status and self-government for the Yazidi region. "The struggle will not be over until our people can live freely and decide their own future," it said in a final statement to the MXDŞ's regular assembly last Friday. The 138-day-long vigil in front of the local security forces' Asayîşa Êzîdxanê building, however, has ended for the time being. The tent will not be taken down, however, as the action may resume.

Colonialist states trigger wars

At its meeting, the MXDŞ addressed, among other things, issues related to rapid change in the Middle East, regional political developments, and the agreement negotiated between the Iraqi central government and the government of South Kurdistan on the division of rule in the main Yazidi settlement area. The Middle East, it said, is in an "unstable situation" as an area of action for capitalist modernity and nation-states, with constantly shifting security, unmistakable shifts in power and interests. "It is these colonialist states that are launching wars for the benefit of their interests in the Middle East and not taking steps for the benefit of civilians. A new occupation of the U.S. government does not mean that its strategy has changed," the MXDŞ statement reads.

Any exercise of state power must be legitimized by the people

With regard to the agreement negotiated in October between Baghdad and Hewlêr (Erbil) on the part of the U.S. and Turkey without the involvement of the Yazidi autonomous administration, the Council points to the reactions of the population, saying, “The Yazidi community had clearly indicated that the will and interest of the people living in Shengal must be the determining factor in decisions about Shengal. Any exercise of state power must be legitimized by the people. If the interests of the Yazidis are completely undermined, there will be resistance.”

Outrage over reinstallation of KDP rule

“The reinstallation of KDP rule is particularly explosive for the Shengal region. This is because the ruling party of the Barzani family, which collaborates with Turkey, abandoned the Yazidis to the genocide of ISIS in the summer of 2014 by withdrawing in flight. The plans to now crush the region's hard-won self-defense are therefore met with the greatest indignation.”

Common will basis for social alliance

"In this regard, there were mainly calls, actions and demonstrations from our clerics, the people, the autonomous council, all institutions, tribal leaders, the Arab community and military forces. In summary, we can state that each person has adopted the right attitude. This common will is a reason for us to celebrate. We see it as the basis for a social alliance."
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The Iraqi army wants to enter the village of Gir Zerik in southwestern Shengal and is blocked by the population. The crowd, consisting mainly of women, has taken to the streets to protest against the Iraqi military. While doing so, the women shout "Bijî berxwedana Şengalê!" (Long live the resistance of Shengal). More people are said to have set out from surrounding villages to support the protest.

The Shengal Democratic Autonomous Council had announced on Sunday that it would continue resistance to outside intervention until the recognition of an autonomous status and self-government for the Yazidi settlement.

With regard to the agreement negotiated in October between Baghdad and Hewlêr (Erbil) on the instructions of the United States and Turkey without the involvement of the Yazidi self-government in October 2020, the autonomous council points to the reactions of the people:

The Yazidi community had clearly indicated that the will and interest of the people living in Shengal must be the determining factor in decisions about Shengal. Any exercise of state power must be legitimized by the people. If the interests of the Yazidis are completely undermined, there will be resistance.
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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:53 am

New Iraqi law to help ISIS victims

A new law in Iraq provides a measure of comfort for women and girls who have survived atrocities of ISIS terrorist fighters, but more must be done, an independent UN human rights expert said on Wednesday

The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, welcomed the adoption on 1 March of The Law on Yazidi Survivors, which recognizes ISIS’s violations against women and girls from the Yazidi, Turkman, Christian and Shabaks minorities – including kidnapping, sexual enslavement, forced marriage, pregnancy and abortion – as genocide and crimes against humanity.

“This is a major step towards promoting justice for crimes committed by ISIS”, she said.
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In addition to providing reparation to the victims, the law provides compensation for survivors, as well as measures for their rehabilitation and reintegration into society, and the prevention of such crimes in the future.

It also offers pensions, the provision of land, housing and education, and a quota in public sector employment.

“When I visited Iraq in February last year, I witnessed the situation of Yazidi women and girls who had survived atrocities by ISIS. Despite their remarkable resilience and strength to rebuild their lives, many continued to live in displacement and faced many challenges to achieve a durable solution”, said the UN independent expert.

Ms. Jimenez-Damary called for “a broad implementation of the law” to also cover survivors from other minorities.

Children born out of rape

At the same time, the Special Rapporteur expressed deep concern over the situation of the children born out of rape by ISIS fighters during the conflict.

Mothers often encounter obstacles to register them because of the absence of a father – and children of Yazidi women born of sexual exploitation and enslavement by ISIS are not accepted in Yazidi communities.

“These children are at risk of abandonment, and these Yazidi mothers face the difficult choice of either leaving their children or their community”, said Ms. Jimenez-Damary.

Unfortunately, this situation is not addressed by this law.

Action requested

The UN rights expert called on the Government of Iraq to strengthen mediation and social cohesion efforts, with the participation of those affected, to protect the rights of both the children and their mothers, and to work toward “a durable solution to their displacement.”

She also called on the international community to support victim-centred programmes and initiatives in Iraq to this end, as well as to contribute to the implementation of the law.

The Special Rapporteur’s remarks were endorsed by Fabian Salvioli, Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence; Mama Fatima Singhateh, Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children; and Tomoya Obokata, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences.

Special Rapporteurs are appointed by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council to examine and report back on a specific human rights theme or a country situation. Their positions are honorary and they are not they paid for their work.

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German court convicts ISIS woman

A German court this week convicted a woman of crimes against humanity for her involvement in the enslavement of a Yazidi woman, lawyers for the prosecution announced on Friday

The 35-year-old woman, identified only as Nurten J, was sentenced to four years and three months in prison on several charges, including membership of a terrorist organisation, serious deprivation of liberty, and aiding and abetting crimes against humanity, according to a statement from the UK-based Doughty Street Chambers, which represents the Yazidi woman listed as a co-plaintiff.

The defendant was said to have used the Yazidi woman, taken captive by the Islamic State (ISIS) following its offensive on the Iraqi district of Shingal in 2014, for slave labour on 50 occasions. She was arrested upon returning to Germany in July of last year.

“There is no punishment that could atone for the injustice that has been done to the Yazidi community. For me, it is irrelevant whether the accused is in custody or will eventually be free again. The only thing that matters is that something like this never happens again,” said the Yazidi woman, who remained anonymous for safety reasons.

The Yazidi ethno-religious minority suffered uniquely under ISIS, subject to a brutal genocide which saw more than 5,000 women and girls kidnapped to be used as sexual and domestic slaves. Thousands remain missing.

Germany has pursued several cases against suspected ISIS members, particularly for their involvement in crimes against the Yazidis.

A woman was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison in October for ISIS membership and enslaving a Yazidi child who later died of thirst.

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Prevent execution of 4 youths

The Yazidi House in al-Jazeera region condemned the decision to execute four Yazidi youths, indicating that there are people who "want to use this crime to extort Şengal people and manage and repeat their tragedies," and called on humanitarian organizations to intervene to prevent the execution of the young men

The Yazidi House in Al-Jazeera region and its youth made a statement to the public opinion, read by member of the Yazidi House, Ziyad Rustom regarding the Mosul court decision to execute four young men from the people of Şengal under the pretext of killing two young men from Al-Shammar, in September 2020.

The statement included, "In the midst of the suffering of the Yazidis in Şengal, where threats, intimidation, and the pain of hundreds of families await the return of their families and captives, the Mosul court issues a decision to execute four young Yazidis from the people of Şengal under the pretext of killing two Arabs last year."

"Despite the many data confirming that these young men are not involved in the crime, especially the historical relations between Al-Shammar clan and the Yazidis of Şengal, some spiteful souls who hold grudges towards the Yezidis and Yazidkhan have tried to affix the accusation of murdering young men was not proven to have committed this crime. "

"From here and from our conviction that the judgment is urgent and carries within it our concerns that we announce without any goals, we appeal to the conscience of the whole world to rise to defend the oppression of four young people who have no fault except their belonging to their religion and their devotion to it, their plains and their mountains, the forms of life and spirit."

The statement appealed to the humanitarian organizations to prevent this heinous crime that publicly translates the hatred of the planners to undermine Şengal’s will and his security, military and societal forces, which means in the end the continuation of striking the Yazidi presence and trying to eradicate it from Şengal.

The statement concluded by, "Glory and eternity to the martyrs of freedom and dignity” and chanting slogans that salute Şengal's resistance.

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A United Nations investigation into atrocities committed by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq found “clear and convincing evidence” of genocide against the Yazidis, according to a UN Security Council briefing on Monday

The road to genocide recognition began in September 2017 when the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2379 establishing an investigative team to hold IS accountable for their actions. That team would later be referred to as the UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh (UNITAD). Da’esh (or Daesh) is the Arabic reference to IS.

Five UN staff members were sent to Iraq in October 2018. Since then, a reported “mountain of information” was compiled by that team that included testimonies, forensic evidence from mass grave sites and digital data extracted from IS phones and hard drives.

Over the next two-and-a-half years, the investigation grew to six field teams, including a gender unit, children's unit, financial and tracking unit, and witness protection support unit. Together, they painted a clearer picture for international officials of the targeted actions by the extremist group.

“Executions, slavery, sexual slavery. Crimes against children that are horrific and really chill one’s soul, that how on earth could such things be allowed to happen, yet they did,” said special adviser and leader of the UN investigation team Karim Khan in his sixth and final report to the UN Security Council.

One of those testimonies came from 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad. A Yazidi from Iraq, Murad was kidnapped by IS in 2014 and sold into sex slavery along with some 5,200 others.

“I will never forget the grief in my mother’s eyes when she realized her sons had been executed — not knowing she would face the same fate,” Murad said in Monday’s virtual UN Security Council briefing. “I can still feel my niece’s hands being ripped out of mine as we were separated and loaded onto buses like cattle. And I can still calculate what my body was worth to those who bought and sold it.”

UNITAD worked with Iraqi officials in the federal territory and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to digitize and document its investigative files in what Khan called the “greatest universe of information available” against IS.

The files have allowed the UN to identify persons of interest that have committed these genocide crimes. The UN team has so far identified 1,444 perpetrators.

In their investigation, the UN team also found crimes that targeted Christian and other Muslim communities. Khan pointed to the IS propaganda video of the murder of cadets, mainly Shiite Muslims, at the Tikrit Air Academy that killed up to 1,700 Iraqis. This video was clear evidence, Khan said, of the crime of direct and public incitement to commit genocide.

This isn’t the first international recognition of IS’s atrocities against the Yazidis. Both the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum both recognized the targeted crimes as a genocide. But the UNITAD finding is significant, according to Sinjar Academy co-founder and president Murad Ismael, because it was an independent investigation conducted with the highest international standards.

Monday’s findings "leave no space for denial of what the Yazidis have suffered,” Ismael wrote to Al-Monitor. “Without such legal recognition, our genocide would have easily been denied and would have been a subject of political interpretations. UNITAD’s work and its findings will protect against that for all time.”

But the international community's work toward both recognizing IS’s atrocities and protecting minority communities like the Yazidis and others is far from over.

In total, at least 10,000 Yazidis were killed or abducted by IS. Over 200,000 Yazidis remain in internally displaced camps across Iraq. And about 2,800 Yazidis, mostly women and children, remain missing.

“Legislation, of course, is needed to ensure that Iraq has the legal architecture in place to prosecute this hemorrhage of the human soul — not as common crimes of terrorism, heinous though they are, but as acts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes,” Khan said.

In March, Iraq’s parliament passed the Yazidi Women Survivor’s Law, a formal recognition of the Yazidi genocide that called for compensation, rehabilitation and education for survivors. It also created a new directorate for survivors' affairs and a civil court in the Ninevah governorate, and it outlined punishment for people involved in abduction and sexual crimes.

Implementing the law, however, presents a challenge for Baghdad amid mounting security and political instability. Yazidis are now encouraging the Iraqi federal government, the KRG, the UN Security Council and the international community to work together to provide security and stability for Yazidis' areas in Iraq and Syria.

“We hope for continued support, including the development of our community’s social and economic life, as our community does the painstaking work needed to heal from the genocide and its deep wounds, and to thrive in our homeland,” Ismael said.

On Monday during the UN Security Council briefing, Murad requested that the Yazidi genocide case be referred to the International Criminal Court. Khan assumes the post of prosecutor at that court next month.

“International tribunals are needed to address the universal magnitude of [IS] crimes against humanity,” Murad said.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu May 20, 2021 12:46 am

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First kindergarten since ISIS opens in Shingal

On the first day, 50 children were enrolled in preschool education

The kindergarten was opened by a local NGO called Sunrise, under the supervision of the Directorate for Arabic Education.

The school can welcome up to 200 students, aged five to 12 years old. Older students are attending as they were unable to access education for the past seven years, either because of displacement or captivity.

“When they told me about the idea, I gave them my direct support,” said Saad Hamid Mato, the Sirector of Arabic education in Shingal. “I made use of this ready-made building for the kindergarten.”

"It’s really necessary to have a kindergarten in Shingal at this time,” he added. “I gave them permission and the minister of education supported the idea.

Some of the children are survivors of Islamic State (ISIS) captivity and still suffer from trauma.

“ISIS persecuted the children a lot, they hurt us a lot,” said Firas Abbas, a child survivor of ISIS. “They used to shoot us and killed thousands of us, they use to stomp their on us.”

“If you go and search, every single family in Shingal has been damaged,” said Parishan Jamal, another child survivor. “We are now very pleased the kindergarten has been opened.”

The school provides both Muslim and Yazidi children with free education.

“Sunrise Organization has done this work,” said Khalaf Hussein, the head of the NGO. “All of our funds are provided by the Shingal Education Directorate. We are trying to get more funds from charity foundations to keep the kindergarten open.”

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Drought hits Shingal’s farmers

Orchards on Mount Shingal are on the verge of drying out, severely affecting the livelihood of local farmers

“We have 150 fig trees and grapevines and 120 of them have dried out,” Shingal farmer Hassan Miksin said. “There are hundreds of farmers suffering just like us.”

Most of the produce grown on Mount Shingal’s orchards is figs and grapes, with more than a thousand families in the area depending on the crops for their livelihood.

Shingal’s tobacco farmers are also suffering from the drought. Area farmers produced 150 tons of tobacco in 2019. The number is expected to drop to 50 tons this year.

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