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They needed a champion and they got one but would it be enough? the massacre at kocho was horrifying. but more horrifying was that isis cutting a swath across the middle east middle east repeated such atrocities wherever it went from iraqi military cadets to coptic christians. historical happenstance may have created -- in the path of isis. but there was one woman who wasn't going to let the world standby and watch. not if she could help. a member of the iraqi parliament, the land of jonah from the bible and the area being overrun by isis. many of those being slaughtered

But late in the year there was a counterattack, it came from the kurds, the middle eastern ethnic minority who are concentrated in the area. their fighting force, the peshmerga backed by international air strikes succeeded in opening a corridor to mount sinjar where thousands of yazidis were trapped. our reporter benjamin hall was there when the peshmerga faced a renewed offensive by isis. at the time the village of kocho was controlled by isis and completely inaccessible. but there was plenty of action around the nearby yazidi ancestral capital of sinjar city. >> we've just had isis attack in...

Iraq and a small village that was visited by evil, a place called kocho. august 15th it was decision day for the people of kocho village. ten miles south of sinjar mountains, critical cross roads and ancient landmark in northern iraq. >> translator: isis surrounded the whole village. >> isis had given kocho villagers like ali an ultimatum, convert to islam or lose all their belongings and join other refugees who had fled to mt. sinjar in the past few weeks. >> translator: isis came with a bulldozer and about 40 cars armed with heavy weapons. they made a circle with cars. >> ali's cousin lived ...

Was visited by evil, a place called kocho. august 15th it was decision day for the people of kocho village. ten miles south of sinjar mountains, critical cross roads and ancient landmark in northern iraq. >> translator: isis surrounded the whole village. >> isis had given kocho villagers like ali an ultimatum, convert to islam or lose all their belongings and join other refugees who had fled to mt. sinjar in the past few weeks. >> translator: isis came with a bulldozer and about 40 cars armed with heavy weapons. they made a circle with cars. >> ali's cousin lived in kocho. he was out of town b...

Jayvee team. >> we will conduct a systematic campaign of air strikes against these terrorists. working with the iraqi government we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so that we're hitting isil targets as iraqi forces go on offense. >> the plan was to degrade and destroy isis. but the effort would be limited to air strikes because the president fore swore the deployment of american ground troops. meanwhile the beleaguered yazidi people had been forced to flee to sinjar mountains about ten miles away from the overrun village of kocho. many of thei...