Efforts are continuing to rebuild Shariya camp, IHCHR says

Iraq 01:36 PM - 2021-06-09

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The Iraqi High Commission For Human Rights on Wednesday confirmed that efforts are continuing to rebuild the camp.

 

A fire broke out on Friday afternoon, 6/4/2021, in the Shariya camp for the displaced from the Yazidi component, which resulted in great material losses with no human losses. read more

 

"The visit to Shariya camp for the displaced comes to closely examine the conditions there, where 288 tents were burnt due to an electrical short," Dr. Basma Muhammad Mustafa, a member of the Board of Human Rights' Commissioners, told PUKmedia.

 

She added, "a campaign of donations continues to compensate the affected families in the camp, where the damages amounted to 100%."

 

She said that the grant of the Ministry of Migration and Displacement to the affected families, amounting to 500,000 dinars, has not been disbursed so far.

 

"Efforts are continuing to build the camp, with building materials instead of tents, to facilitate the return of the displaced to it, by providing electrical transformers, to fill the shortage in transformers," Dr. Basma said.

 

She added, "IHCHR is working to deliver all the requests of the displaced in Shariya camp to the concerned authorities in order to secure them."

 

Shariya camp was prepared in 2014 for the Yazidis who were displaced to Duhok after ISIS invaded the Shingal district.

 

The ISIS attacks n the Yazidis in Iraq that began on 3 August 2014 resulted in thousands being killed: the United Nations estimates that 5,000 Yazidi men died in the massacre.

 

Yazidi men who refused to convert to Islam were executed and dumped in mass graves; many boys were forced to become child soldiers.

 

An estimated 7,000 Yazidi women and girls, some as young as nine, were enslaved and forcibly transferred to locations in Iraq and eastern Syria. Held in sexual slavery, survivors reported being repeatedly sold, gifted, or passed around among ISIS fighters.

 

 

 

PUKmedia