Iraq's Yazidis mark New Year still haunted by IS horrors

Iraq's Yazidis mark New Year still haunted by IS horrors

Terra Daily

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Lalish, Iraq (AFP) April 19, 2023

One by one, members of Iraq's minority Yazidi community light oil lamps to mark their New Year at a sacred shrine, but for Omar Sinan the celebration cannot erase the atrocities of jihadist rule. In 2014, the Islamic State (IS) group swept across swathes of Iraq, carrying out horrific violence against the Kurdish-speaking community whose non-Muslim faith the extremists considered heretical.

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