So many Yazidis killed, and this is not what you would call a huge group of people so each and every one is so important to this group..
Kurds Investigate Reports of Mass Grave of Yazidis in Sinjar
By MICHAEL R. GORDONNOV. 14, 2015
DOHUK, Iraq — Kurdish officials are investigating reports that a mass grave has been found near the town of Sinjar that holds the remains of more than 70 Yazidis, including older women, a Kurdish security official said Saturday.
Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook the town of Sinjar on Friday from the Islamic State, which had controlled it since August 2014.
On Saturday, local officials told news agencies that Islamic State members had executed older Yazidi women, ages 40 to about 80, in and around the town, whom they did not want to keep as sex slaves.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/world/middleeast/iraq-sinjar-kurds-mass-graves-yazidis.html?&_r=1
Kurds Investigate Reports of Mass Grave of Yazidis in Sinjar
By MICHAEL R. GORDONNOV. 14, 2015
DOHUK, Iraq — Kurdish officials are investigating reports that a mass grave has been found near the town of Sinjar that holds the remains of more than 70 Yazidis, including older women, a Kurdish security official said Saturday.
Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook the town of Sinjar on Friday from the Islamic State, which had controlled it since August 2014.
On Saturday, local officials told news agencies that Islamic State members had executed older Yazidi women, ages 40 to about 80, in and around the town, whom they did not want to keep as sex slaves.
Continue reading at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/world/middleeast/iraq-sinjar-kurds-mass-graves-yazidis.html?&_r=1