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Assignment: What's happened to Iraq's Yazidis?

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What's happened to Iraq's Yazidis?

06/07/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Assignment, What's happened to Iraq's Yazidis?

The ancient Iraqi community still can't go home years after fleeing Islamic State terror

The ancient Iraqi community still can't go home years after fleeing the terror of the Islamic State group

In 2014, militants of the Islamic State group set out to destroy the ancient, minority Yazidi community of northern Iraq. Thousands were murdered, thousands of Yazidi women and children were enslaved and brutalised. Since the defeat of IS in 2017,  the traumatized community has tried to recover. And yet, as Rachel Wright reports, more than 100,000 Yazidis remain stuck in camps, unable to return to their homes.

Photo: Bahar, a Yazidi survivor, holds a picture of her missing husband and son. She and her family were captured by Islamic State in 2014. (BBC)

Presenter: Rachel Wright
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