Displaced Yezidi survivors today buried the remains of their loved ones who were brutally massacred on August 15, 2014, by Da’esh (aka, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/ISIL/ISIS) in Kocho.
Yezidis Bury Kocho Genocide Victims
Ezidikhan Government Condemns Crop Arson
A sudden and mysterious wave of fires, blamed on the Islamic State, has been burning tens of thousands of acres of Yezidi cropland, destroying a rare bumper crop of wheat and barley and threatening the already impoverished families and their livestock with starvation.