Slemani to commemorate Yazidi's Genocide at the hands of ISIS

The Committee for Organizing the ceremony to commemorate the Shingal tragedy announced on Monday that a memorial ceremony will be held next Wednesday in Slemani to commemorate the Yazidis genocide at the hands of ISIS.

Daoud Jundi, head of the organizing committee and official of the Shingal Organizations Center of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), told PUKmedia, that the Shingal Organizations Center, in coordination with the Organizations Office and the office of Mrs. Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed, will hold a memorial ceremony on Wednesday on the eighth anniversary of the Shingal tragedy, noting that the ceremony will include several parts and a presentation of documentaries about the tragedy, in addition to speeches by several government and party officials.

He added that the ceremony will be organized under the slogan "The wound of Shingal and the Yazidis can only heal by reconstruction".

The ceremony will be held at 10:30 am (local time) on Wednesday at Khak Hall in the city of Slemani.

The terrorist organization ISIS invaded the Shingal district on the morning of August 3, 2014, and began a genocide, where dozens of Yazidis were martyred, while the terrorists kidnapped thousands of women and children, and thousands of Yazidi women are still captives with the terrorist organization, while thousands of Yazidis are still on the list.

On August 3rd, 2014, Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists launched a vicious attack on Shingal (Sinjar), the mainland of the Yazidis, and a disputed town in northern Iraq, killing thousands of Yazidi men and abducting women and children to later be forced into slavery.

The attack also led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of members of the community. Most of them fled to the Kurdistan Region, while others resettled to neighboring countries in the region or Western states.

According to the United Nations, 5,000 Yazidi men died in the massacre. The terrorists have also kidnapped thousands of Yazidi women and teenage girls.



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