The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State's Genocide of the Yezidis by Thomas Schmidinger

The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State's Genocide of the Yezidis

Thomas Schmidinger

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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The persecution of the Yezidis, a Gnostic religious community originating in Upper Mesopotamia, has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. On 3 August 2014, Islamic State attacked the Yezidi community in Sinjar, Kurdistan. Thousands were en...

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