Joy of Yazidi women after liberation from ISIS
As soon as they reach the areas of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the People’s/Women’s Defense Units (YPG/YPJ), the Yazidis breathe freedom as if they have returned to life again; forming a circle of joy and pleasure filled with feelings
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The Middle East is the center of civilization in the world, and Kurdistan is the richest region in this vast geography. And so it has been constantly targeted throughout its history. The last of these brutal attacks was on August 3, 2014, when the ISIS terrorists attacked the Yazidis in Shengal.
Without a distinction between children or adults, men or women, the ISIS militants carried out a massacre against the Yazidis and exterminated them to a deep wound in the heart that would not heal.
In addition to these massacres, thousands of Yazidis women and children were kidnapped and, to this day, many have been liberated in all areas reclaimed from the control of ISIS. For months, the Syrian Democratic Forces, the YPG and YPJ units have been conducting their campaign against the last terrorist-controlled terrain, as part of the Jazeera Strom campaign and its final stage, the Battle to Defeat Terrorism.
The operation continues with the liberation of hundreds of civilians from the terrorist organization on a daily basis.
As we move through the corridor where civilians fled from ISIS towards the SDF territory, we have seen touching moments that are impossible to forget.
Among the civilians who were liberated recently in the last ISIS pockets, are Yazidi women and children abducted from Shengal in 2014. These women and children, upon their arrival to the areas where the Syrian Democratic Forces and the People's and Women's Defense Units are present, were happy to be rescued from terror, to return to life.
The happiness on their faces expressed everything. Like the joy and pleasure that draws on the face of a child when seeing his/her mother after many years of separation. Their sense of closeness to their homeland showed their enthusiasm and pleasure beyond description.
“How happy we are, for our salvation from ISIS and reaching the freedom fighters,” the Yazidi women repeatedly said. “We will never forget those who have sacrificed their lives to liberate us from the clutches of ISIS,” the women added.
On the other hand, the SDF fighters evacuated the liberated civilians into safe areas so they can be safely brought home. “We will fight terrorism everywhere to free the last child and woman from the hands of ISIS,” the combatants reassured the Yazidi women.
SDF freed 3 Yazidi children from ISIS
SDF fighters have freed 3 Yazidi children who had been abducted by ISIS from Shengal in 2014
A refugee group of 800 people who were evacuated from ISIS occupied area in Baghouz have reached the Hawl Camp in Heseke. It came out that the freed civilians include 3 Yazidi children from Shengal who had been abducted by ISIS during the genocidal onslaught on the Yazidi town in August, 2014.
The rescued Yazidi children are 11-year-old Samir Xidir, 9-year-old Zinar Eto and 10-year-old Hediye Mihsin.
While Samir and Hediye are in good state of health, Zinar has been taken under treatment at the Hikmê Hospital in Heseke.
Yazidi House administrators who came to the camp for the three children have put them under their protection. North and East Syria Yazidi Affairs Administration official Mehmûd Memî stated that the three children will be reunited with their families in Shengal.
Occupation forces demolished
the Sheikh Hemid Tomb in Afrin
The occupation forces in Afrin have demolished the Sheikh Hemid Tomb, sacred for Yazidi community, in a village of Afrin
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The Turkish invasion army and allied gangs continue their genocidal attacks in Afrin where several areas on World Heritage List have already been demolished and destroyed.
The occupation forces have demolished the Sheikh Hemid Tomb in the village of Qestel Cindo in Afrin’s Shera district. The tomb was a sacred site for the Yazidi community.
The Sheikh Berekat tomb in Ayn Dara, the Qere Cirne Tomb in Meydanke village and the Sheikh Adî Tomb in Qibar village, sacred sites for Yazidis, are among the historical structures destroyed during and after the occupation attacks of the Turkish state against Afrin.
Last week, the Jabhat al-Sham militants vandalized the Yezidi shrine of Sheikh Hemid in the village of Qestela Cindi in the Shera sub-district of Afrin, local sourced confirmed to Rudaw.
http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/21022019
Yazidi House:
We will get Yazidi children to Shengal Council
Cizire Region Yazidi House Council Member Mehmud Resho said they have received the 11 Yazidi children rescued from ISIS gangs and that the children will be taken to the Shengal Council
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SDF has rescued 11 Yazidi children along with the thousands of civilians held hostage by ISIS.
SDF General Command turned over the rescued children to the Cizire Region Yazidi House Council to be reunited with their families.
The rescued children are: Sifiyan Xelef Sileman, Mahir Xelil Ibrahim, Diler Eli Refo, Wesim Ismail Ibrahim, Iyad Hisen Shemo, Mustefa Ehmed, Mazin Selim, Xesman Semir, Dilvan Xelef, Secad Ebas and Sedam Hisen.
Cizire Region Yazidi House Council Member Mehmud Resho said: “The rescued children are with us now. We have offered treatment for those who needed medical attention and we have seen to their needs.”
Mehmud Resho said they are in contact with the Shengal Council to reunite the children with their families.
Rehso said the children are physically well, but have been affected psychologically by the violence by ISIS gangs.
Mehmud Resho thanked the SDF and said: “We are thankful that the SDF has rescued civilians, especially our children. Many civilians rescued to date were brought to us by the SDF. ISIS gangs still have many Yazidis captive. We thank the SDF once again for their efforts to rescue civilians.
Yazidi children rescued from
ISIS tell what they experienced
Yazidi children, rescued from ISIS gangs, expressed that they were forced to be Islamized, that they were staying in military camps and that they had undergone military training under the name of Eşbalen Xilafe
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ISIS gangs kidnapped thousands of Yazidi women and children in their attacks against Shengal back in 2014. The gangs that forced the Yazidi children to convert into Islam also educated the children under the name “Eşbalen Xilafe”.
Hundreds of Yazidi women and children were rescued in the Operation Cizire Storm. SDF fighters finally saved 11 Yazidi children from gangs.
Sedam Hisen, a 15-year-old boy is from Shengal’s Dokrî village. Hisen said, “I was 10 when the gangs kidnapped me. They first took me to the Tal Afar. Then they separated the women and the men, and left the children alone. We went through Mosul, Raqqa and Hajin and finally came to Baghouz.”
Hisen, who said that the gangs had forced them to convert to Islam and that they were thrown into the dungeon if they opposed the gangs, also stated that the gangs were trying to indoctrinate them with dirty ideas. Hisên said “We were staying in military camps, taking military and intellectual training. They impressed their dirty ideas on us.”
Hisen who continued: “I spoke to my mother and siblings with the help of the Yazidi House in the Cizire region. I will see them soon. I have missed them too much” finished his words with “ISIS killed my father and kept me away from my family for five years.”
“All I remember is they beat me every day”
10-year-old Iyad Hisên is from the village of Herdanê and is sick. He explains the 5 years he was held by the gangs: “I don't remember how they took me, because I was 5. They beat me every day.”
Iyad Hisên continued: “No news from my family. I hate ISIS because they kidnapped me and took me away from my family.”
Dr. Diyar Reşo, member of the Kurdish Red Crescent who made the health checks of the children, said that the children have some diseases due to malnutrition.
Resco added: “We carried out the children's physical health checks. They have no good psychology due to the bad treatment they were subject to during their captivity at the hands of the gangs.
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