In reading today’s blog on the Scientology Religion website I came across something I was unaware of—the persecution of the Yazidis.
The blog states that Jan Figel, the European Union’s first Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the EU classifies the persecution of the Yazidis by ISIS as genocide.
Looking for more information, I found another even more disturbing article on Christian Today describing the systematic raping of young Yazidi women.
Families are forced to buy back their relatives. Newsweek reports “nearly one-third, or 2,678 out of the 6,431 captured Yazidis have been freed so far” and that “Buying and selling the captives has become a booming trade for some Syrian Kurds over the last two years.”
Catholic News Agency gives covers this issue including Special Envoy Figel’s recommendations on what needs to be done to remedy it.
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