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Iraq |
Gunmen kill 23 Yezidis in Iraq |
2007-04-23 |
Insurgents killed 50 people in a new day of carnage in Iraq on Sunday, including 23 members of a non-Muslim minority dragged from a bus and gunned down by the roadside, security officials said. The non-Muslims from Iraq’s Yazidi minority were ambushed near the main northern city of Mosul, police Brigadier General Mohammed el-Waqa’a said. “Workers were travelling back from a textile plant in Mosul to their home in Bashika, east of the city,” he said. “Several gunmen stopped the buses, chose the Yazidi among the passengers and killed them in front of everybody.” Police said a group of cars blocked the road in the Al-Nur neighbourhood in the east of the city, while others set up a cordon to protect the gang that stormed the convoy. The captives were executed on a field by the road. Three wounded Yazidis survived, officers said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#4 Yezidi are non-muslim Kurds. I recall Saddam persecuted them particularly severely. |
Posted by: phil_b 2007-04-23 09:14 |
#3 If the woman was realy killed, and I'm not convinced she was, it was an honor thing, not religion. The Yezedi espouse a far differing view of life than most Moslems. I could easily believe that the story was made up, a rumour. |
Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2007-04-23 07:57 |
#2 Zen, I've read the Yazidi are pro-American and pro-Israel. |
Posted by: Xenophon 2007-04-23 07:54 |
#1 I'm torn on this one. This incident probably centered on how a young woman Yezidi who recently converted to Islam was stoned to death for it. I suppose it's easiest to root for the side that isn't Islam. Sort of a default case. |
Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-23 04:30 |