Yazidi genocide: Difference between revisions

The [[Yazidis]] are [[monotheists]] who believe in [[Melek Taus|Melek Taus, a benevolent angel who appears as a peacock]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Açikyildiz |first=Birgül |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-pY7zAEACAAJ |title=The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion |date=16 October 2014 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Academic]] |isbn=978-1-78453-216-1 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> The self-proclaimed [[Islamic State]] and some other Muslims in the region tend to view the peacock angel as the malevolent creature [[Lucifer]] or [[Shaitan]] and they consider the Yazidis '[[devil]] worshippers'. IS does not consider Yazidis as [[People of the book]] or eligible for [[Dhimmi]] and related protections;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape.html |title=ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape |date=13 August 2015 |last=Callimachi |first=Rukmini |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=16 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150816170045/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape.html?_r=0 |url-status=live}}</ref> whereas moderate Islam offers these protections to a wide variety of minority religions.<ref>Protection of minority religions in moderate Islam, for details see: [[People of the Book]].

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* In 1640, [[History of the Kurdish people#Battle against Yazidis|40,000 Ottoman soldiers attacked Yazidi communities around Mount Sinjar]], killing 3,060 Yazidis duringin battle, then raiding and setting fire to 300 Yazidi villages and murdering 1,000–2,000 Yazidis who had taken refuge in caves around the town of Sinjar;<ref>{{cite book |first=Evliya |last=Çelebi |title=The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman: Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588–1662) |translator-first=Robert |translator-last=Dankoff |translator-link=Robert Dankoff |publisher=[[SUNY Press]] |date=1991 |isbn=0-7914-0640-7 |pages=169–171}}</ref>

[[Amal Clooney]] of the [[Center for Justice and Accountability|Center for Justice & Accountability]] (CJA), represented five Yazidi women before the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia]] against [[Umm Sayyaf]] seeking prosecution of Sayyaf for her role in their enslavement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MENAFN |title=Yazidi women seek justice in U.S. court for crimes committed by ISIL |url=https://menafn.com/1102012598/Yazidi-women-seek-justice-in-US-court-for-crimes-committed-by-ISIL |access-date=3 May 2021 |website=menafn.com |archive-date=18 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918042021/https://menafn.com/1102012598/Yazidi-women-seek-justice-in-US-court-for-crimes-committed-by-ISIL |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, German courts convicted ISIS women for their involvement in the enslavement of Yazidi women.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Holly |date=23 April 2021 |title=German court convicts ISIS woman of crimes against humanity for Yazidi enslavement |url=https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/230420211 |access-date=3 May 2021 |website=Rudaw |archive-date=20 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720023709/https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/230420211 |url-status=live}}</ref> German courts also prosecuted [[Taha al-Jumailly]], an Iraqi member of the Islamic State, for his involvement in the Yazidi genocide, to include the murder of a five-year-old girl.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 November 2021 |title=Yazidi genocide: IS member found guilty in German landmark trial |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59474616 |access-date=31 May 2023 |archive-date=19 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219015713/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59474616 |url-status=live}}</ref> A report by the Yazidi Justice Committee covered the allegation of countriesaccused, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, forof failing to prevent and punish the genocide.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Ochab |first=Ewelina |date=9 July 2022 |title=Turkey, Syria And Iraq Face Allegations Of Failing To Prevent And Punish The Daesh Genocide |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2022/07/09/turkey-syria-and-iraq-face-allegations-of-failing-to-prevent-and-punish-the-daesh-genocide/?sh=2c5050073f60 |access-date=17 August 2022 |magazine=[[Forbes]] |archive-date=18 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918042017/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2022/07/09/turkey-syria-and-iraq-face-allegations-of-failing-to-prevent-and-punish-the-daesh-genocide/?sh=2c5050073f60 |url-status=live}}</ref>