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Iraq
Yazidi leader killed in air strike by Turkey four years after genocide
2018-08-18
[Jpost] On Wednesday, hundreds of Yazidis, members of a religious minority in Iraq, gathered in the village of Kocho to commemorate the 2014 genocide perpetrated by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
. Hundreds of families in the village were systematically separated. The women and kiddies sold as slaves, while the men machine-gunned, and their bodies dumped in mass graves. An hour after the ceremony was over, an air strike hit one of the trucks that had departed, killing several people.

Among the victims was a mustachioed 66-year-old man nicknamed Zaki Shingali, known among local Yazidis as a brave fighter who had fought ISIS and saved people in 2014. Sometimes called "Mam Zaki" or "Uncle Zaki," he was a wanted man across the border in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
Posted by:trailing wife

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It would be something if the Yazidi forces found some effective manpads laying by the roadside one day.
Erdogan is beyond tedious. It wouldn't bother me if we started to reduce our presence in Turkey.
Posted by: Roger29 Palms   2018-08-18 18:23  

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