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A natural pit, estimated to be 100 meters deep, about 6 km away from the center of the “Tal Afar” district, near a village called “Baki Qoot”, which ISIS used to bury its victims, the bodies shrunk its depth, appearing on the surface of the depth, the bones and clothes, it is the Well of the “pigeons”.

Bashar Dakheel, a Yazidi captured with his family in by ISIS when the organization attacked “Sinjar” district in the western of Nineveh Governorate on August 3, 2014, and he survived after spending nearly two and a half years in captivity, tells “Ezidi24” what he heard about this Well when he was held in ISIS prisons.

“ISIS committed the most heinous crimes against us as a Yazidis. In fact, we lived the most difficult days of our lives in captivity, because we have always been subject to death, otherwise we saw various crimes with our own eyes while ISIS members were careful to tell us the whereabouts of the rest of the families or the places of their liquidation.” This is what he said At the beginning of his speech.

“When we were in captivity, specifically on April 23, 2015, they separated everyone from each other (it was not the first time) and took them to this Well and killed them. I did not see the Well, but we heard from members of ISIS themselves that they use it for the purpose of liquidating those who were arrested for a reason or violating their policy”, He said.

“As I said, no one saw this Well when they took control of the “Tal Afar” district because they did not allow anyone, because most of the crimes they were committing were in this place, and after I survived, I visited this place and the effects of crimes are clear. There are Skeletons for people on the surface of the depth of the Well and I know that there are people left from Yazidis, but I am not aware of the number of victims in the Well”, This is what Dakheel said at the end of his speech.

The member of the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights, Dr. Ali al-Bayati reiterate, “This cemetery contains 400 bodies belonging to the deceased from the Shiite Turkmen, and also 600 bodies belonging to the sons of the Yazidi component were killed by ISIS, in addition to a number of other bodies belonging to the various components.”

“This cemetery is one of the most heinous crimes of ISIS, where he did not stop killing and throwing them in the cemetery. Rather, he exploded this cemetery from time to another in order to expand the cemetery further”, He continued.

The Turkmen activist and manager of the Intercultural Dialogue organization for Development and relife, spoke to “Ezidi24” and said, “This Well is located near the Turkmen village of “Baki Qoot” in an unused empty space, it was called the pigeons Well due to the mirage of pigeons above the Well and the Turkmen call it in Tal Afar “Alo Antar”, ISIS used it to kill and bury innocents of various components in Nineveh”.

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