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| France to Take in 100 Yazidi Women Stranded in Iraqi Kurdistan |
| 2018-10-26 |
| [An Nahar] French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to bring to La Belle France 100 Yazidi women who were victims of assault by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... fighters in northern Iraq beginning in 2014, his office said Thursday. Macron's offer came after a meeting in Gay Paree with Nadia Murad, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this month for her campaign to end sexual violence as a weapon of war. Murad was one of thousands of Yazidi women captured by IS jihadists before they were driven out of Sinjar and other parts of Iraq, starting with campaigns by Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led coalition forces. Macron said that in response to Murad's request, 20 of the refugees being held without access to care in Iraqi Kurdistan would come to La Belle France by the end of this year, and the remainder in 2019. He said he would also back Murad's launch of a reconstruction fund for Sinjar to build hospitals and schools, hopefully encouraging Yazidis who had fled to return to their bastion. Murad was in Gay Paree to present a report from the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on the brutalities inflicted on Yazidi women during the IS siege, in particular those by imported muscle who had joined the IS jihadists. More than 6,800 Yazidis were kidnapped, of which 4,300 either escaped or were bought as slaves, while 2,500 remain missing, the report said. The federation called on governments to pursue its citizens who fought alongside IS for participating in genocide and crimes against humanity. |
| Posted by:Fred |