7eyrani:7eyrani:thecybersmith: ezidxan: People of the Peacock Angel (2016) Bavê &Cced
7eyrani:7eyrani:thecybersmith: ezidxan: People of the Peacock Angel (2016) Bavê Çawîş, the highest Êzidî temple guard of Lalish on the ongoing Êzidî genocide that started in 2014. To this day over 3200 Êzidî women and children are still in the hands of Daesh (ISIS) and used as sex slaves and military recruitment. Is it better now? Not much has changed for Ezidis ever since the start of the genocide at the hands of ISIS that will have it’s 4th anniversary in August of this year (2018). While over 3000 women and children still remain in captivity, thousands of other Ezidis are displaced, either living in refugee camps or returning to destroyed villages with no sufficient infrastructure anymore. There is an immense lack of basic needs such as medical care, food, shelter and education for children. A lot of abducted women are reported to have been further sold into sex slavery into other countries and many of the kidnapped children have been sold to Muslim families. Those who were kidnapped at a young age do not remember their roots, their culture and their religion anymore. Cases in which children have been reunited with their real families show they need to be reintegrated into their communities again which proves to be difficult as many have forgotten their mother tongue. The liberated Ezidi woman and children are still in need of psychological help for the mental and physical abuse they received at the hands of ISIS during their captivity. Unfortunately to this day the world barely knows about them or their situation so efforts to improve their circumstances are only going very slowly. It breaks my heart how over 7 years (2021) after the Ezidi community was uprooted in the most violent way in their homeland, every word above still stands as their reality. Still almost 3000 women and children are in captivity. In spring of this year a seven year old Ezidi girl was saved from human trafficking in Turkey. She was an infant when she was kidnapped by ISIS members and ever since sold several times. Her fate is that of thousands of Ezidi children and women whose whereabouts are unknown to this day. Whatever efforts are made to find them, are coming from within their community, despite the promises and obligations of the international community to support the survivors. Ezidis are rotting away in IDP camps in Iraq which lack most basic sanitary facilities. Lack of water, electricity, most basic education. Fires in the summers and not adequate shelter in the winters. There is a whole lost generation of Ezidi children and adults all the same who experience extrem mental health issues because of the trauma ISIS genocide inflicted on them. There has not been a single month this year without reports of suicide cases in IDP camps. Please consider supporting these amazing organizations that have been on the ground since day one, assisting the survivors: Khalsa Aid, Yazda, Nadias Initiative and Free Yezidi Foundation. -- source link