Yazidis: Attempts to recover and struggle to survive in post-ISIS era
Katia Zagoritou
Their need to reassert their religious identity and to return to a somewhat normality is evident. Yet, the small community has a series of challenges to address; most importantly, the issue of Yazidi women and their children born of rape appears to put a strain on the community, which has to decide whether to make an exception or not to its strict rules and its longstanding efforts for purity. Moreover, the return to its homeland is crucial to its very existence, given the importance of the existence of the population in its lands of origin.
Otherwise, as Hadi Baba Sheikh, the representative of the chief Yazidi spiritual leader, stresses, the Yazidi community will gradually disappear abroad since the host societies will absorb and assimilate it. Should the Yezidi not return to their places of origin, in Nineveh Provinces and Sinjar, where their holy places are besides, the very survival of this small community is seriously endangered. Last but not least, the importance of the recognition of the Yazidi genocide, the investigation, the accountability and the prosecution of the responsible are decisive for the future and the recovery of the community.
Tags: #yazidisinfo #yezidi #aboutyazidi #Sinjar #Shangal #genocideyezidi
Yazidis: Attempts to recover and struggle to survive in post-ISIS era
Katia Zagoritou
Their need to reassert their religious identity and to return to a somewhat normality is evident. Yet, the small community has a series of challenges to address; most importantly, the issue of Yazidi women and their children born of rape appears to put a strain on the community, which has to decide whether to make an exception or not to its strict rules and its longstanding efforts for purity. Moreover, the return to its homeland is crucial to its very existence, given the importance of the existence of the population in its lands of origin.
Otherwise, as Hadi Baba Sheikh, the representative of the chief Yazidi spiritual leader, stresses, the Yazidi community will gradually disappear abroad since the host societies will absorb and assimilate it. Should the Yezidi not return to their places of origin, in Nineveh Provinces and Sinjar, where their holy places are besides, the very survival of this small community is seriously endangered. Last but not least, the importance of the recognition of the Yazidi genocide, the investigation, the accountability and the prosecution of the responsible are decisive for the future and the recovery of the community.
Tags: #yazidisinfo #yezidi #aboutyazidi #Sinjar #Shangal #genocideyezidi
