Yazidi genocide file by TAJÊ: ISIS and its collaborators must be prosecuted

In a file on the Yazidi genocide in Shengal, TAJÊ demanded that ISIS gangs and their collaborators be tried in an international court.

On the 10th anniversary of the 3 August 2014 genocide, the Yazidi Free Women's Movement (TAJÊ) prepared a dossier detailing the responsibilities in the genocide and the crimes committed by the KDP, the ruling party in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

TAJÊ submitted the dossier to the European Court of Human Rights, the Iraqi Prime Minister and the German Foreign Ministry, along with the countries that recognised the mass slaughter of 3 August 2014 as genocide, and demanded the prosecution of the KDP.

The letter included the file prepared by TAJÊ reads as follows:

"On 3 August 2014, our Yazidi community faced the 74th genocide in their history. ISIS gangs perpetrated this genocide by attacking the Yazidi community in the heaviest way in Shengal (Sinjar). As a result of these attacks, approximately 7 thousand people were abducted, most of them women and children. While about 3,600 of those kidnapped by ISIS were rescued, the fate of almost 2,500 of them is still unknown. ISIS gangs massacred thousands of Yazidis and buried them in mass graves. In the last 10 years, 92 mass graves have been identified and there are still many unidentified graves. 56 mass graves were opened and more than 700 bodies were exhumed from these graves. 242 bodies were identified, handed over to their families and buried.

Ten years have passed since the genocide. During this period of time, a lot of research has been conducted on the root causes of the genocide of 3 August 2014. The research reveals that ISIS gangs and the perpetrators of genocide have not yet been prosecuted and justice has not been served. The Yazidi community is aware of the necessity of justice in order to be protected from new genocide. ISIS gangs and their collaborators must be tried in an international court. We have prepared a dossier to ensure that the truth does not disappear and that the perpetrators of the genocide are brought to account. We ask you to take this dossier into consideration."