Bafel Talabani: PUK is ready to provide any support for reconstruction of Shingal

Genocide 11:30 AM - 2021-08-03

Bafel Talabani, the co-president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), issued a statement on the anniversary of the genocide committed by the terrorist organization ISIS against the Yazidis.

Bafel Talabani stated: "With great sadness and sorrow, we commemorate today the anniversary of the occupation of Shingal (Sinjar) and the genocide against the Yazidi sisters and brothers. Those wounds will not heal and will remain in our national conscience."

"7 years have passed since that historical tragedy, unfortunately, a large number of our sisters and brothers live in bad conditions in the camps and far from their areas of origin. We must serve Shingal, apart from political bidding and disputes, and intensifying our efforts to provide a decent life and better stability for Shingal and its dear individuals," he added.

Bafel Talabani declared: "PUK is ready to provide any support or assistance for the reconstruction of Shingal and defining this crime as genocide, and the federal government must continue its efforts to compensate the affected and normalize the situation in Shingal, otherwise the area becomes a field for resolving political conflicts." 

 

ISIS attack on Shingal

On August 3rd, 2014, 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.

Others were not as lucky and remained stranded in the war zone, where they later went through horrific atrocities and mass executions at the hands of the extremist group for years. ISIS militants forced women and girls into sexual slavery, kidnapped their children, forced religious conversions, executed scores of men, and abused, sold, and trafficked women and girls across the areas they controlled in Iraq and Syria.

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.

According to the KRG, the terrorists kidnapped more than 6,400 Yazidis, but only half of them managed to escape or survive, while the fate of the rest is still unknown.

ISIS gained control of one-third of Iraq in 2014 until 2017 when Iraq announced regaining control of Nineveh, Anbar, Saladin, and parts of Kirkuk and Diyala.  




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