1/5 Vandaag, 16 november 2023, is een onvergetelijke dag voor mij, de dag waarop ik mijn Masterdiploma in ontvangst mocht nemen. Een mijlpaal die me met trots vervult. 2/5 In vier jaar heb ik me volledig omgeschoold, van een technisch profiel met wiskunde B en natuurkunde naar mondiale politiek (Bachelor & Master) aan de @VUamsterdam. Officieel ben ik nu een politicoloog, een titel die ik met trots zal dragen.

Het is buitengewoon tragisch dat overlevenden van de genocide nu geconfronteerd worden met deportaties en moeilijke omstandigheden, terwijl sommige daders van deze gruwelijke misdaden, met name ISIS-vrouwen, gerepatrieerd worden.
#Yazidigenocide #onrecht
wrongspeakpublishing.com/p/after-isis-y… Het is een schrijnende realiteit dat zij die de verschrikkingen van de genocide hebben doorstaan, nu geconfronteerd worden met vervolging en gedwongen terugkeer naar gebieden die nog steeds onstabiel zijn. #NeverAgain #nooitmeer

𝗜𝘀 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗾 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲? A #thread
Persecution and repression of ancient religious minorities, original people of Mesopotamia is going further. A civilization that housed diverse range of beliefs for thousands of years, will soon be over. For centuries, Iraq has been home to multiple religious groups with ancient roots in the region.

But decades of turmoil has driven many religious minorities out, with the most recent example being the onslaught of Al-Qaida, ISIS and now by Iran backed militias.

𝗔𝗹𝗷𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 ⁦@NadiaMuradBasee⁩ 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗦 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗬𝗲𝘇𝗶𝗱𝗶𝘀 #yazidigenocide aljazeera.com/amp/features/2… For centuries, the Yazidis have been persecuted for their religious beliefs by the Ottomans, Arabs and most recently, ISIS.

𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬, 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬.
A #Threads
Countries underestimate national security threats surrounding the role of social media in fuelling terrorism
reuters.com/article/social… Today’s jihadi recruiters need only a computer and Internet connection to recruit, inspire, and direct terrorist attacks—even continents away.

#Thread: 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗦 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
13,157 Europeans were among the approximately 30,000 foreign terrorist fighters from over 86 countries that joined the genocidal terrorist organisation #ISIS 2014-2016. Most of them (almost 4000) come from just five countries: #France, the #UK, #Germany, #Belgium, and the #Netherlands.

#thread After two and a half years in #ISIS captivity, Imad, his little brother Idan, and their mother Ghazala are released into a refugee camp in #Kurdistan.

A film on #YazidiGenocide:
12, 13 & 14 May at @AmsterdamFilm Healing from the #trauma is hard for all of them, but it seems Imad is having a particularly tough time. Not yet five, he has already spent over half his #life enduring terror, abuse, and “training” meant to make him heartless.

What happened in Sinjar region of Iraq/Kurdistan the past three days? He's a brief #thread.

Iraqi government resettled some of the internally displaced Sunni Muslim families to Sinjar, where #YazidiGenocide was committed by ISIS in 2014. Yezidis protested against this plan in front of the Islamic Mosque located in Sinjar, because according to some witnesses, there were some Sunni Muslims among them who supported and joined #ISIS against the Yezidis in 2014. This people joined ISIS and betrayed the Yezidis back… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…