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| Iraq |
| Roughly 30 Yazidi Bodies Exhumed in Iraq |
| 2019-03-29 |
| [VOA] KOCHO, IRAQ ‐ In 2014, Islamic State militants launched a brutal attack on Yazidi people in northern Iraq. Survivors say militants often forced men to dig mass graves before killing them and throwing them in. Women and children were captured and sold into forced labor or sexual slavery. Asia was 12 when she was taken five years ago. "They came around noon and told us to pack," she said, a few minutes walk from the mass grave in her village, Kocho."They said they would take us to the mountains to be free and brought us to a school. First, they took our valuables, our mobile phones and our ID cards." In recent weeks, Iraqi and United Nations workers have exhumed what they believe to be the remains of 30 bodies of Yazidi victims of IS from one of the dozens of mass graves in the region. Thousands were killed and thousands more remain missing in what the United Nations has called a possible genocide. |
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