The Yazidisâ Crisis Continues to Unfold Ending It Is a Moral Imperative

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Alon Ben-Meir

Causes of the Persecution

The goodwill and the efforts of these countries and concerned individuals have been great, but they have fallen short because of the enormous magnitude of the humanitarian crisis facing the Yazidis. Amnesty International found clear evidence that ISIS targeted the rural environment that supports the people who live off the land. The Yazidis now face new threats caused by four interrelated developments, which are making their repatriation and rehabilitation extremely challenging.

First, the precipitous withdrawal of American troops from Syria has created a vacuum that Turkey, Russia, and Iran has been quick to fill. Despite President Trump claim that ISIS was 100 percent defeated, the Pentagon in a report in August said that the group solidified its insurgent capabilities in Iraq and was resurging in Syria.The pullout of U.S. troops has already had devastating consequences for all minority groups, especially the Kurds, Yazidis, and Christians.

Second, Trump fated withdrawal of U.S. forces invited Turkey to invade Syria  and invasion that Ankara was preparing for these past two years. There was never any love lost between the Turks and the Yazidis. The tension goes back to the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, entire Yazidi villages were wiped out; thousands were killed and many more displaced. When Turkey took control of the Afrin region in Syria, Turkish soldiers and proxy fighters in Syria were engaged in ethnic cleansing; they rained havoc on Yazidi temples, and many Yazidis were expelled from the areas. What makes matter worse is the fact that owing to ISIS deliberate targeting of agriculture, on which the Yazidis were wholly dependent for both their main food source and main source of income, yazidis who depend on agriculture live in Sinjar in northern Iraq any longer.





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The Yazidisâ Crisis Continues to Unfold Ending It Is a Moral Imperative

2020/01/alon--1578734695.jpg
Read: 1424     14:00     11 ЯНВАРЬ 2020    

Alon Ben-Meir

Causes of the Persecution

The goodwill and the efforts of these countries and concerned individuals have been great, but they have fallen short because of the enormous magnitude of the humanitarian crisis facing the Yazidis. Amnesty International found clear evidence that ISIS targeted the rural environment that supports the people who live off the land. The Yazidis now face new threats caused by four interrelated developments, which are making their repatriation and rehabilitation extremely challenging.

First, the precipitous withdrawal of American troops from Syria has created a vacuum that Turkey, Russia, and Iran has been quick to fill. Despite President Trump claim that ISIS was 100 percent defeated, the Pentagon in a report in August said that the group solidified its insurgent capabilities in Iraq and was resurging in Syria.The pullout of U.S. troops has already had devastating consequences for all minority groups, especially the Kurds, Yazidis, and Christians.

Second, Trump fated withdrawal of U.S. forces invited Turkey to invade Syria  and invasion that Ankara was preparing for these past two years. There was never any love lost between the Turks and the Yazidis. The tension goes back to the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, entire Yazidi villages were wiped out; thousands were killed and many more displaced. When Turkey took control of the Afrin region in Syria, Turkish soldiers and proxy fighters in Syria were engaged in ethnic cleansing; they rained havoc on Yazidi temples, and many Yazidis were expelled from the areas. What makes matter worse is the fact that owing to ISIS deliberate targeting of agriculture, on which the Yazidis were wholly dependent for both their main food source and main source of income, yazidis who depend on agriculture live in Sinjar in northern Iraq any longer.





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