According to the BBC, “there were believed to be an estimated 550,000 Yazidis living in Iraq before IS invaded on 3 August 2014. Popular misconceptions about and demonization of the Yazidi community created one of the preconditions for Daesh’s genocide attempt. An Iraqi Yazidi woman attends a candle-lit vigil on August 3, 2020, marking the sixth anniversary of the Daesh group's attack on the Yazidi community in the northwestern Sinjar district. By 2017 Mosul was liberated from Daesh control, with the last remaining territories held by Daesh in Iraq following suit soon after. As they continue to exhume their dead from various mass graves, the Yazidi community deserves at least this much.

Source: Ethiopian News February 20, 2021 20:17 UTC