In a statement regarding the threats against the Yazidis, DTK warned the KDP, saying: "We will not allow you to make Yazidis the victim of your personal interests."
Hundreds of Yazidi families, who were forcibly detained in the camps in Duhok and Zakho and prevented from returning to their hometown Shengal (Sinjar), fled the IDP camps to protect themselves from a possible attack after the hate speeches directed against them by KDP circles. Hundreds of Yazidi families fleeing from the KDP reached Shengal on 9 August, welcomed by the Êzidxan Asayish, local Yazidi Public Order Units.
The Democratic Society Congress (DTK) made a written statement regarding the flight of the displaced Yazidis back to their hometown due to the threats they were exposed to.
The DTK statement on Sunday said: "The Yazidi community, massacred 73 times in front of the eyes of the world, continues to face the same threat today. After 73 genocides, many Yazidis were displaced, with some of them going to Europe, some of them returning to Shengal, and some others living in camps under bad conditions. The 150 thousand Yazidis living under the pressure of the KDP in the Kurdistan Region face yet another massacre due to the remarks of former Peshmerga Kasım Seho. The KDP, which left Yazidis in the hands of ISIS savages in the 73rd genocidal onslaught, is trying to leave Shengal without status today.”
The statement continued: ““As DTK, we warn the KDP and say that we will not allow you to make Yazidis the victim of your personal interests. The territory of Kurdistan is beyond the scope of the KDP. On the one hand, the KDP offers the territory of Kurdistan to the invaders, on the other hand, it threatens the gains of the Kurdish people through the co-operation of the invaders. History will record the shame of the KDP, which did not protect the Yazidis against ISIS and fled, and it will also record those who protected the Yazidi community and human dignity, but our people will condemn this attitude of the KDP. To this end, we call on the international community and powers to take a clear stance against this situation that leads to a new massacre and not to remain silent. Silence is complicity in a massacre. We once again call on all the people of Kurdistan, parties, organisations and civil institutions to be active against these attacks."
