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Boston Calling: No Place Like Home

An Iraqi Yazidi woman and her baby, who fled her home when IS militants attacked the town of Sinjar, Credit: AFP/Getty Images

23/08/2014

No Place Like Home

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A Yazidi community in America tries desperately to help friends and family in Iraq

A Yazidi community in America tries desperately to help friends and family in Iraq.

Iraq’s Yazidis are on the run from militants of the Islamic State, and the threat of further violence looms large. We’ll hear how a Yazidi community in Nebraska is dealing with their group’s dramatic plight. 

Also on the programme, we’ll visit ‘Little Kurdistan’, where we head out on patrol with the city’s only Kurdish-American cop. And, we’ll find out how protestors in Ferguson, Missouri connected with residents of the West Bank. Also in this edition, we’ll ask why the US refused to pay ransom demands for slain American journalist James Foley. We’ll learn the reasons an escalating number of migrants are being tried as criminals in US courts. And, we’ll listen to an avant folk-rock band that’s fusing Chinese and American sounds.

Picture: An Iraqi Yazidi woman and her baby, who fled their home when IS militants attacked the town of Sinjar, Credit: AFP/Getty Images

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