All these people wanted to do was live in peace. They weren't bothering anyone.
In A Somber Homecoming, Yazidis Grieve And Watch Over Their Dead
FEBRUARY 12, 2015 4:02 PM ET
ARI SHAPIRO
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In August, the self-proclaimed Islamic State seized territory near the northern Iraqi village of Hardan. A handful of Yazidis who fled have returned to a grim discovery: mass burial pits. Naif Brahem Khadir holds a traditional man's headdress with blood stains and a bullet hole. It was half-buried in a mound near the village. He believes his uncle and his cousin are among the bodies here.
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As you drive through northern Iraq near the border with Syria, you pass checkpoints every few miles or so. Manning these roadblocks are Kurdish fighters, wearing camouflage and body armor, carrying big guns.
Sometimes there are piles of dirt in the road to slow down traffic.
These Kurdish peshmerga fighters are beginning to reclaim some land from the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS, and people are beginning to return to their homes.
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In A Somber Homecoming, Yazidis Grieve And Watch Over Their Dead
FEBRUARY 12, 2015 4:02 PM ET
ARI SHAPIRO
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Listen to the Story
All Things Considered
3 min 51 sec
In August, the self-proclaimed Islamic State seized territory near the northern Iraqi village of Hardan. A handful of Yazidis who fled have returned to a grim discovery: mass burial pits. Naif Brahem Khadir holds a traditional man's headdress with blood stains and a bullet hole. It was half-buried in a mound near the village. He believes his uncle and his cousin are among the bodies here.
Ari Shapiro/NPR
As you drive through northern Iraq near the border with Syria, you pass checkpoints every few miles or so. Manning these roadblocks are Kurdish fighters, wearing camouflage and body armor, carrying big guns.
Sometimes there are piles of dirt in the road to slow down traffic.
These Kurdish peshmerga fighters are beginning to reclaim some land from the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS, and people are beginning to return to their homes.
Continue reading at:
In A Somber Homecoming Yazidis Grieve And Watch Over Their Dead Parallels NPR?