Excerpt from the report of the authoritative international organization for human rights "Human Rights Watch"

Yazidis, especially those who do not identify with any Kurdish party and do not recognize their Kurdish identity, are systematically subjected to violence, harassment, discrimination, arbitrary arrest and humiliation. According to reports, the increase in suicides among Yazidi youth is due to the ongoing persecution by the Kurdish security forces and the marginalization of Yazidi society. In 2011, 75 Yazidis in Sinjar committed suicide. In 2012, their number increased to 125. Today, the Yazidis, like any Iraqi minority, are under attack. One such attack occurred in 2007, when two Yazidi settlements were razed to the ground after four coordinated bombings. The attack claimed the lives of at least 400 civilians, injured 1,562 people, and left more than 1,000 families homeless.

In addition to existing acts of targeted violence against Yazidis, individuals who refuse to identify as Kurds are harassed, intimidated, arbitrarily arrested, and detained, and humiliated by the Kurdish security forces.

For example, at the end of 2012, at the initiative of the Hammurabi Human Rights organization and the Ministry of Human Rights of Iraq, a conference was convened in Sinjar to study and eliminate the causes of suicide among members of the Yazidi community. After the conference, several Yazidi human rights defenders on duty were arrested by the Kurdish security service Asayish. The security service accused the Yazidis of bypassing the Kurdish authorities by allowing the central government ministry to hold an event in Sinjar. Representatives of the Asaish insisted that such issues should be coordinated with the Kurdish authorities. They reportedly asked an elderly Yazidi human rights activist whether he considered himself a Yazidi or a Kurd. When he refused to recognize himself as a Kurd, the representatives of Asayish subjected him to violence. After his release, his son committed suicide because of his father's humiliation.

Excerpt from the report of the authoritative international organization for human rights "Human Rights Watch" and the equally authoritative organization " Institute for International Law and Human Rights”.

Next: the report of the international organization for human rights "Human Rights Watch" for 2009. Two members of the Yazidi ISLAH party, who are supporters of the Yazidi identity, were captured by the Kurdish Asayish security forces and tortured during interrogation. One of them was asked what their language was, and he replied that it was Yazidi. He was told: "No, the Yazidis don't have a language, they speak the Kurdish language." As a punishment, the Yazidi activist was subjected to further torture.

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