Preparations are underway to reunite Zhiyan Shamo Khidhir with her family, Hussein Qaidi, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s Yezidi Rescue Office, told Rudaw on Tuesday.
Born in 2002 in the village of Kocho, Shingal, Khidhir was among around 7,000 Yezidi women and girls kidnapped by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) group in the summer of 2014.
No other details about the rescue, Khidhir’s condition, or her current location were provided.
Qaidi said his office is coordinating with the Iraqi Army to help reunite her with her family. He did not say where the family now resides.
Many of those who escaped the ISIS genocide in Shingal fled to displacement camps in the Kurdistan Region province of Duhok. Others emigrated to Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
or further afield ‐ decimating the region’s once vibrant ethnic and religious diversity.
Roughly half of the women and kiddies kidnapped by ISIS have since been brought to safety by the Yezidi Rescue Office.
What happened in Kocho and other villages like it has been highlighted by Yezidi survivor and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
activist Nadia Murad, who became a UN Goodwill Ambassador in 2016 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.
Although Shingal was retaken from ISIS in 2015, the region remains hotly disputed between rival forces. Displaced families are wary of returning amid the insecurity, the lack of infrastructure, and recent
...KABOOM!...
s targeting the alleged positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Of Iraq’s remaining 550,000 Yezidis, an estimated 360,000 of them live in camps and communities in the Kurdistan Region, according to statistics from the KRG’s Yezidi Rescue Office. Around 40,000 remained or returned to Shingal.