Yazidis: Sinjar attack should be recognised as a massacre

Sinjar people who were forced to leave their homeland and took shelter in Şırnak province in North Kurdistan after the attacks of ISIS gangs called on the European Parliament to recognise this most recent attack on Yazidi people as a massacre.

Sinjar people who were forced to leave their homeland and took shelter in Şırnak province in North Kurdistan after the attacks of ISIS gangs called on the European Parliament to recognise this most recent attack on Yazidi people as a massacre.

Staging a march to the Bişenk Life Center, the Sinjar citizens chanted slogans in Kurdish, Arabic and English, such as “Freedom for Sinjar”, “Damn with ISIS”, “Freedom for Ezdixane” and “Either freedom or freedom”.

Speaking on behalf of the Yazidi people in Şırnak, İlyas İso recalled that the Yazidi Kurds have suffered dozens of massacres because of their identity and faith throughout the history. Iso urged the world community to break their silence at the most recent massacre of the ISIS gangs against the Yazidi people.

İso said that; "ISIS gangs have been launching savage attacks against our people since August 3. They kidnapped Yazidi women and sold them in markets, beheaded children, hanged their heads on stakes and shwed them around in the streets of Sinjar and Mosul."

Calling on the world community to break the silence at this savagery, İso added; "We want the European public opinion and Parliament to say stop to all this savagery and to recognise it as a massacre of Yazidis."