The human rights organization Amnesty International, no return provides opportunity for many displaced Yazidis. In a report, the activists, the so-called “Islamic state” (IS) before throwing the systematic destruction of the livelihoods of the minority. The Islamists have poisoned wells and irrigation systems, and destroyed, arable lands and orchards destroyed gardens, livestock and agricultural machinery is stolen, as well as vast tracts of land mined.
One year after the Iraqi government has declared a military victory over the IS, could the Yazidis, therefore, still not in the villages, says the report. The activists are calling on the Iraqi government to the rural areas. Of the once 550.000 Yazidis to 100,000 have fled abroad, hundreds of thousands more are now living in the Kurdish regions in the Camps.
The ethno-religious minority of the Yezidis in Northern Iraq. according to the UN, since 2014, the victim of a genocide by the IS In the ideology of the jihadists, Yazidi “infidels” and “devil worshipers” because they worship even an angel. Tens of thousands fled in 2014, as the terrorist militia occupied large areas in Northern Iraq. During the IS killed the most jesidischen men, sold the extremists, the women as slaves. Kurdish fighters were able to expel the Islamists, 2015 from the Region.