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women preparing bread, kurdistan, 1979 by francois lochon

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The nature of the Kurdistan by Kurdistan Photo كوردستان https://flic.kr/p/2nneRfu

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On the 73rd attempt to exterminate us, I wept with my Yazidi ancestors

August 2014, I spent the day...

August 2014, I spent the day in front of the television with my parents in the living room, sitting on my bed watching videos on youtube, spending hours reading on the websites of German, English and Kurdish newspapers. On all the channels, I saw the same pictures.

I will never forget what I saw on the third of August 2014.

I saw women dressed like my grandmother, my aunt, my cousins, men like my grandfather, father, uncle. I saw them running in the mountains. Singal birindar e, they were running for their lives. It was midsummer. The sun was burning. Two reporters of the Kurdish television Rudaw tried to courageously report the tragedy but found themselves crying instead. “There have been 72 genocide campaigns on the Ezidis" Vian Dakhil, a Yezidi deputy of the Iraqi parliament exclaimed on the podium he broke down and cried on, "and now it is being repeated in the 21st century." "We are being slaughtered. We are being exterminated. An entire religon is being exterminated from the face of the Earth. Brothers, I appeal to you in the name of humanity to save us!" He wept. I wept with him.  

I must think of my grandmother, whose father was murdered because he was Yezidi. I must think of my family, who fled their village at night because it was surrounded by fanatics who wanted to kill them.

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A Frozen Tree | by Em44

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Peshmerga, FSA en-route to join the battle for Kobane

Peshmerga, FSA en-route to join the battle for Kobane

A convoy of Peshmerga vehicles is welcomed by Turkish Kurds at Habur border gate, which separates Turkey from Iraq, near the town of Silopi in southeastern Turkey, October 29, 2014.

Iraqi-Kurdish Peshmerga forces, along with fighters from the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) deployed to the Syrian-Kurdish town of Kobane where fierce fighting with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants…

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