This is the worse case scenario for post-war Iraq. The Islamic State army now controls massive territory in Iraq and Syria and just breached Kurdish defences. Obama orders airstrikes. From the CMT about the Yazidi minority: Unlike Christians, who have been told they must either pay a religious tax or convert to Islam to avoid death, the Yazidis are considered by Sunni militants to be infidels who deserve extermination. Hundreds of Yazidi killed, many women taken into slavery. They consider us infidels so they are killing us and taking away the women, says Vian Dakhil, a Yazedi member of parliament, her eyes filling with tears after taking a call from a Yzedi man who told her three of his five children had died on the mountain. CMT article here: csmonitor/World/Middle-East/2014/0807/Islamic-State-persecution-of-Yazidi-minority-amounts-to-genocide-UN-says-video
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 05:09:37 +0000
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