Iraq: Humanitarian Bulletin, April 2021 - Iraq
Iraq: Humanitarian Bulletin, April 2021 Format UN Agencies Announce Projects to Support Yazidis In April 2021, two UN agencies in Iraq announced new projects to assist survivors of the Yazidi genocide. The Yazidis are a religious minority whose beliefs and practices span thousands of years, the majority of whom have historically lived in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, near the Syrian border. On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)—who considered the Yazidis to be heretics—launched a sustained attack on the Sinjar region as part of their larger campaign to ca...
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