The Hidden Wound: How the Yazidi Genocide Poisoned Entire Families

Imagine this: a young Yazidi girl or boy finally escapes after years in ISIS captivity… enslaved, raped repeatedly, tortured.

They come home broken, full of nightmares and depression.

1/8 But the hell doesn't stop there.

That one person's trauma spreads like poison through the whole family.

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Tomorrow is the 11th anniversary of Yazidi Genocide. 🧵thread August 3rd, 2014.
ISIS attacked our people in Shingal/Iraq just because of our religion.
Thousands were killed.

This is not history. This is still our pain.
Please read, share, and remember.

One of the most striking similarities between Hinduism and Yezidism can be found between their respective oil lamps.

Thread 🧵 Similarities. Both Hindus and Yezidis share a belief in human reincarnation and transmigration

(the belief that a person's soul continues to exist after death and is reborn in another body).

One of the most striking similarities between Hinduism and Yezidism can be found between their respective oil lamps.

Thread 🧵 Similarities Both Hindus and Yezidis share a belief in human reincarnation and transmigration

(the belief that a person's soul continues to exist after death and is reborn in another body).

ISIS monsters laugh and haggle about buying enslaved girls (some as young as 15) in a chilling video. Young girls with blue & green eyes are worth more on “slave-market day,” they say.

“If she is 15 years old, I have to check her, check her teeth,”

I will sell her for a Glock”

https://twitter.com/lamamarmie/status/1556996723922419715

Those monsters enslaved and abused “hundreds, if not thousands” of Yazidi women and children.

in its English-language magazine, the Islamic State claimed it had a right to do so under Sharia law.
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