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Khanke IDP (Internally Displaced Person) camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in August 2025. Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifanova

January 23, 2026

‘We ran from monsters’: Once welcomed by Germany after IS genocide, Yazidis are now deported to a life of limbo in refugee camps

Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova, Central European University

In January 2023, the German parliament formally recognised Yazidi genocide. Yet, the recognition remains largely symbolic and has no influence on asylum decisions.

Iraqi Yazidi women cry as they hold pictures of victims and missing relatives during a ceremony in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, marking the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide. Ismael Adnan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

August 8, 2024

Islamic State’s genocide was not limited to killing and enslaving Yazidis, Christians and other communities − it also erased their heritage

Alda Benjamen, University of Dayton

A scholar of Iraq describes the ongoing loss following the genocidal violence by IS − not just of human lives, but of a rich cultural heritage.

Dilbar Ali Ravu, 10, is kissed by his aunt, Dalal Ravu, as Yazidi children are reunited with their families in Iraq after five years of captivity with the Islamic State group, March 2, 2019. AP Photo/Philip Issa, File

November 26, 2019

5 years after Islamic State massacre, an Iraqi minority is transformed by trauma

Tutku Ayhan, University of Central Florida and Güneş Murat Tezcür, University of Central Florida

Interviews with the Yazidi survivors of IS attacks that killed 3,100 people in 2014 reveal the emotional, cultural and spiritual scars of religious persecution.

July 6, 2017

Sexual violence against the Yezidis is part of IS’s genocide campaign

Aldo Zammit Borda, Anglia Ruskin University

The terrorist group is trying to destroy a religious minority.

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