We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoWe are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoThe day before Isis came was a holiday and, like many in extended Yazidi families, Suad was not at home. She had taken her young sons, Malik and Mamo, to her parents in Tal Kasab to celebrate the end of the fast. Tal Kasab was next to her own village of Tal Banat, to which she had eloped aged 14. “I had a normal life,” Suad, 25, said of her upbringing among the Yazidi of Sinjar, a minority whose culture and beliefs predate those of their neighbours by millennia. “I was just like anyone else.”The next day, August 3, 2014, ended normal life for Iraq’s Yazidis, tearing apart families, massacring men and boys, enslaving women and children, and leaving their future as a minority…

Source: The Times November 30, 2019 00:03 UTC