中東、受難の宗教的マイノリティ（1）
今年8月、イスラム国の攻撃を逃れてドホークへ避難してきたイラクのヤジディ教徒たち。 Photograph by Ari Jalal / Reuters 今年8月、まるで聖書の世界を見ているかのような光景がテレビ画面を埋め尽くした。イスラム国の攻撃を逃れ、イラク北部に拡がる不毛の荒野シンジャルの山中へ追われた数万というヤジディ教徒たちの姿である。クルド人の少数派である古代宗教ヤジディ教は、イスラム国から悪魔崇拝とみなされている。 ヤジディ教は、中東で数千年もの間生き続けてきた数ある宗教的少数派の一つである。他にも、コプト教、サマリア教、ゾロアスター教などの宗教がある。しかし、イスラム教の過激化やその他の政治的抑圧が増すにつれて、こうした宗教は先の見えない将来に不安を抱えている。 イギリスおよび国連の外交官を務めた経験を持つジェラード・ラッセル（Gerard Russell）氏は、今でもこうし
Nadia Murad, Yazidi Woman Who Survived ISIS Captivity, Wins Human Rights Prize (Published 2016)
Nadia Murad, Yazidi Woman Who Survived ISIS Captivity, Wins Human Rights Prize Nadia Murad, a former prisoner of the Islamic State, spoke after being awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize at the Council of Europe on Monday in Strasbourg, France.Credit...Patrick Seeger/European Pressphoto Agency Fighters for the Islamic State abducted a young Yazidi woman named Nadia Murad, her siblings and t
ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape (Published 2015)
QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted. He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrate
John Kerry: Isis is committing genocide in Syria and Iraq
Displaced people from minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards Syrian border in August 2014. Photograph: Rodi Said/ReutersLast month, the European parliament unanimously backed a resolution to label the atrocities as genocide. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, and Republican candidate Ted Cruz have
Even after escaping Isis, the suffering of the Yazidis persists | Giles Fraser
According to Yazidi tradition, when the peacock angel first arrived on earth he coloured all things with the vibrancy of his feathers. Yet under heavy grey skies, the rain fell relentlessly on the outskirts of Dohuk city in northern Iraq, creating tracks of thick brown mud. Here a 15-strong Yazidi family, three generations together, sheltered in a half-finished building lent to them by local Chris
Iraqi forces free group of Yazidi women from Islamic State: ministry
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces freed a group of Yazidi women held captive by Islamic State in a covert operation behind the group’s lines, a defense ministry statement said on Wednesday.It did not say how many women were freed, when or where. Islamic State captured around 5,000 Yazidi men and women in the northern region of Sinjar in summer 2014. Some 2,000 have managed to escape or hav
Yazidi teenager escaped Islamic State, appeals for help for sex slaves
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was a “black morning” two years ago when Islamic State militants seized the Yazidi town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq, abducting thousands of civilians including a 15-year-old girl and 27 members of her family. The teenager, Nihad Barakat Shamo Alawsi, was taken to Syria and then to the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq, she told an event in
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Who Are the Yazidi 'Devil Worshipers' and Why Is ISIS Trying to Slaughter and Enslave This Ancient Minority? Part Two.
Who Are the Yazidi "Devil Worshipers" and Why Is ISIS Trying to Slaughter and Enslave This Ancient Minority? Part One.
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Displaced Yazidis still on Mount Sinjar grapple with harsh conditions