Beekeeper turned spymaster searches for Iraq's missing Yazidis
Posted: Apr 16, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 16 Abdullah Shrem, 46, at his home near Duhok in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Among the tools he used to help find and rescue Yazidis captured by the Islamic State were detailed maps and a network of contacts in Iraq and Syria. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC) He hasn't kept bees or sold honey in years and he's no longer living in Sinjar. But Abdullah Shrem is still known to many as the beekeeper of Sinjar, his ancestral lands in the district of Sinjar in northwest Iraq. There's even a book titled after him. In 2014, he parlayed his honey-buyin...
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