Iraq calls for stronger worldwide recognition of Yazidi genocide
The ministry reaffirmed Iraq's commitment to find the missing and support survivors, as its embassies kept on advocating for justice. It also emphasized the need to collaborate with humanitarian organizations to track down abductees and help rebuild the community.
ISIS militants launched a catastrophic assault on August 3, 2014, against the Yazidi people of Sinjar in northeastern Iraq, near the Syrian border.
ISIS committed genocide, as well as several crimes against humanity and war crimes, including mass killings, forced religious conversions to Islam, enslavement, and wild sexual assault against women and girls, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani urged the government to increase efforts to find the missing, expedite the exhumation of mass graves, and fully enforce the Yazidi Survivors Law, which was passed in 2021 to support women enslaved by ISIS.
Following the offensive on Sinjar, ISIS terrorists forcefully relocated thousands of abducted Yazidis to Syria, where young females were subjected to sexual slavery and Yazidi boys were forced to train for warfare and suicide missions.
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