International developments in connection with the seventh anniversary of the ISIL invasion of Sinjar

The General Secretariat of the Committee for the Protection of Religions in Iraq monitored the activities of the International Committee on Missing Yazidis in Iraq (ICMP). On August 3, 2021, the Committee held a meeting in honor of the seventh anniversary of the Sinjar Yazidi genocide, during the whole day, Yazidi NGOs discussed and found ways to return the missing Yazidis, determine their whereabouts and protect their rights.
The International Committee on Missing Persons is an intergovernmental organization based in The Hague in the Netherlands, whose mission is to ensure the cooperation of Governments, non-governmental organizations, and government agencies in the search for missing persons during conflicts, human rights violations, natural disasters, organized crime, illegal migration, and other causes. The organization is entrusted exclusively with the work on the issues of missing Yazidis.
Speaking to the Director General of the International Committee on Missing Persons, Catherine Bomberger, during an interview, said: "It is extremely important to continue the efforts of the Iraqi national authorities, together with the International Commission on Missing Persons, to bring to justice all those who still commit crimes in Iraq, including those who are engaged in aiding and abetting, and to bring those responsible to justice."
For information, the International Commission on Missing Persons has been working with Iraqi institutions since 2005. It opened an office in Baghdad in 2008 and in Erbil in 2010. ICMP helps Iraq to establish a continuous process of searching and locating missing persons, regardless of the period of disappearance, circumstances or national / religious origin, and to ensure the rights of all remaining Yazidi families to receive their rights, justice and compensation through the creation of specially created institutions and legislation that are necessary to ensure business continuity, including a special central institution to coordinate efforts and maintain a central database, which collects all the missing records and information. A few days ago, during the current summer season, two major institutions specializing in the problems of missing persons in Iraq, namely the Department of Mass Graves and the Department of Forensic Medicine of the Ministry of Health, began using the Unified Database Management System (iDMS) of the International Committee on Missing Persons.
Since 2016, ICMP has provided great support to Iraqi experts in the fight against ISIL crimes, protecting and digging up graves in Sinjar and mass graves in Tikrit. This support included on-site training, mentoring and operational support.
The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Iraq, Dr. Hisham Al-Alawi, participated in the above-mentioned meeting and made a speech on this day, in which he stated:
"We are gathered here today at the headquarters of the International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague to commemorate the victims of the genocide committed by ISIS against the Yazidi community in Iraq in August 2014. We thank the ICMP team for their valuable partnership with our Embassy in The Hague and the support that has been provided to the citizens of Iraq since 2005. We certainly believe that the international community should allocate more resources to this important issue, because such investments will help achieve truth, justice, accountability, peace and stability."
The General Secretariat of the Committee for the Protection of Religions and Sects in Iraq highly appreciates the work of the Yazidis of the International Committee for Missing Persons (ICMP), more efforts should be made to rehabilitate survivors and children, as well as providing them with international health support.

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