Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled to the Sinjar mountains, but some 7,000 Yazidi women, children and men were killed or captured that day, he said. “I managed to run away for fear of being killed by ISIL,” Kachi said. ISIL killed those elderly women or buried them alive in a mass grave,” Kachi said. “Today, I speak before you as I have lost around 75 members of my family and my brothers’ families who were killed at the hands of ISIL,” Kachi said. Even though five years have passed, “I can still remember the remains of my brothers and my nephews.

Source: Washington Post November 27, 2019 00:11 UTC