This weekend, 104 Yazidi victims, murdered by ISIS criminals, were finally laid to rest in Kocho, Iraqi Kurdistan. Our team was present at the ceremony, both as survivors of genocide and as humanitarian workers, who help other Yazidi survivors deal with their trauma and return to a normal, happy life. At the Kadia IDP camp, they organised a very moving ceremony with the widows and orphans of the victims.
The 104 victims were murdered in 2014 during the Islamic State’s ‘reign of terror’. Men, women, and children were brutally murdered as ISIS rampaged across the Yazidi homeland killing, raping and looting in what the UN has classified as a genocide. The victims’ bodies were exhumed from mass graves and identified before being reburied in Kocho, Sinjar province.
Since 2015 Back To Life has been collecting the testimonies of Yazidi survivors of ISIS crimes in order to fight against impunity for these killings.
