Xanesor People's Assembly demands justice for Yazidi father and daughter killed in Zakho

In the first week of August, a Yazidi girl and her father were brutally murdered in KDP-controlled Zakho. The authorities are silent. The Xanesor People's Assembly called on the government to find and punish the killers.

Axîn, 6, and her father, Faruk Mirza, were kidnapped on 4 August, one day after the anniversary of the ISIS gangs' genocidal attacks on Shengal, in the Cemişko camp in Zakho.

After a while, the girl was found dead with most of her kidneys removed. It was also found that there were signs of sexual assault on her body. The body of her father, Faruk Mirza, was found with his tongue cut off.

While the Kurdistan regional government did not make any statement regarding this atrocity, the People's Assembly of Xanesor (Khanasor) in Shengal made a statement regarding the murdered father and daughter.

A member of the Yazidi Free Women's Movement (TAJÊ) read the statement made in front of the parliament building.

In the statement, both the Baghdad and Hewler governments were called to find and punish the killers.

Pointing out that this is not the first time such an incident has occurred in the camps in South Kurdistan, the People's Assembly said: "These incidents are not perpetrated by a single person. They are perpetrated by a network affiliated to the Kurdistan Government. That's why criminals are not punished."

The People's Assembly also said that the KDP forcibly detained the camp residents and did not allow them to return to Shengal, and added: "The KDP neither protects them nor allows them to return."

The People's Assembly called on those held in the camps and the entire Kurdish people to demand justice for 6-year-old Axîn.