Today 90 per cent of the wheat and barley farms still under Yazidi cultivation in northern Iraq have been destroyed. When ISIL invaded the Yazidi homeland of northern Iraq in 2014, the KRG also did nothing. Yazidi lament that the KRG has consistently siphoned off much of the international aid that was earmarked to support Yazidi refugees. There are still 3,000 Yazidi women missing and many are held in captivity by ISIL families in Syria, Iraq and Turkey. The Yazidi in the newly created UN refugee camps in Syria are terrified to identify themselves as Yazidi to the UN authorities for two reasons.

Source: National Post July 10, 2019 20:03 UTC