YAZIDI IN EXILE

In August 2014, Islamic State militants attacked a Yazidi population on Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq with the intention of destroying the population of “devil-worshipers.” The genocide led to the expulsion, flight and effective exile of the Yazidis from their ancestral lands – estimates are that 5,000 were killed, 7,000 women and girls were forced into sexual slavery, and 500,000 fled on foot, yet to return. Many are found in camps in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq and southern Turkey.