Iraq's Minority Communities Feel the Wrath Of Islamic Militants

Saturday, 9 August 2014





'A Catastrophe': Yazidi Survivor Recalls Horror Of Evading ISIS And Death -- CNN



Irbil, Iraq (CNN) -- Which is worse: Running desperately for your life, or seeing others' lives end without enough to eat or drink?



It's an impossible question to answer. Then again, it's difficult to fathom most anything thousands of minority Yazidis have endured in recent weeks as they've fled from ISIS militants into remote, rugged, sparse mountains of northern Iraq.



"With my own eyes, I saw dogs feeding off dead bodies," one of those Yazidis, a man named Tariq, told CNN.



"It's not a crisis. It's a catastrophe."



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More News On The Plight Of Iraq's Minority Communities Who Are Feeling The Wrath Of Islamic Militants



Islamic State militants tell 300 Yazidi families: convert or die -- Reuters

Kurds rescue Yazidis from Iraqi mountain -- Al Jazeera

Thousands From Iraq Minority Flee to Syria -- AP

We Need an Army: Iraq Refugees in Erbil Urge Obama to Do More -- NBC

Iraq crisis: save us from death -- The Telegraph

Iraq conflict: US aid drop follows fresh raids on militants -- BBC

Iraqi refugees 'facing genocide' to receive UK airdrop of aid -- The Guardian

'Isis has shattered the ancient ties that bound Iraq's minorities' -- The Guardian

Who are the religious and ethnic groups under threat from ISIS? -- Joshua Berlinger, CNN

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