Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Attacks on Yazidis have surged recently and almost all Yazidi families living outside the autonomous Kurdish region have fled the country, reported the Iraqi daily Azzaman. According to a statement issued by the League of Yazidi intellectuals, 192 Yazidis have been killed in the past four years since the U.S. troops invaded the country. This figure does not include the latest victims.
"Most of the killings were perpetrated on religious grounds as fundamentalist and Islamist groups see [Yazidis] as infidels who either have to convert or be killed," reported the daily.
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There are nearly half a million Yazidis in Iraq and most of them live in two major localities - in Shaikhan, north of Mosul and Sinjar, to the west.
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Yazidis face genocide?
From the Turkish Daily News, April 24: