On August 3, 2014, with the onslaught of the ISIS in Shengal (Sinjar), the Yazidi people were left to another genocide, the 74th one they suffered throughout their history. Those who could save themselves fled to the mountains. On the way there, countless children and elderly people died of thirst. Those who could no longer make it out of the town were brutally murdered. Thousands of young Yazidi women were kidnapped and raped, maltreated and sold in the slave markets of the ISIS. More than 12,000 people were murdered, according to the UN, and more than 400,000 were driven from their homes. Almost 2,900 Yazidi women, men and children are still missing today.

Leyla Mirad (17) and Ronya Feysel (17) were among those abducted by the savage gangs after the incursion on their hometown.

The two girls have just been freed from ISIS capticity in the Hol Camp and handed over to the Yazidi House in the Cizire region of North-East Syria.

Leyla and Ronya have already reached South Kurdistan and will be reunited with their families in Shengal.

The Yazidi House is an institution dedicated to the search for the abducted Yazidis from Shengal. According to information from the association's board of directors, about 3,000 Yazidi men and women are still missing. So far 55 Yazidi women and 179 Yazidi children have been freed from the Hol Camp However, the organization assumes that there are far more deportees in the camp.

During SDF operations against the ISIS, 1,178 women, 337 men, 1,010 girls and 926 boys; a total of 3,451 Yazidis, were freed from ISIS captivity. The fate of about 2,900 people remains unclear.

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