12-04-2022, 06:15




The Iraqi Observatory said to Human Rights that the Iraqi government must document the graves of the Yezidis collective, which is constantly detected in areas of northern Iraq. These crimes must be documented as evidence of the crimes committed against the Yezidis.


And he added, "the victims of an ISIS organization of Yazidis must be considered victims of terrorism, to obtain their rights, like the victims of bombings and assassinations, especially those who are identified after the opening of mass graves recently discovered in Sinjar district in Nineveh".


In cooperation with the United Nations, the Iraqi authorities opened the first mass grave containing the remains of Yazidis killed by the organization "ISIS" in the region of Kuju, in the north of the country, in the presence of NADIYA MURAD who gained the Nobel Peace Prize to extract the remains of victims of crimes and the fate of hundreds of residents of the village of Kujo In the judiciary.


Khader Dumli said during an interview with the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights "The process of opening graves has led to a lot of collisions and tension and laxity and negligence, and lack of resourcefulness in the management of the file, but the subject left the door open to questions and queries may be delayed response and delayed the process of opening graves, and significantly affect the achievement of justice and the official genocide.


He also said that "among these questions is how the mass graves will be opened without conditions and international decisions,  Is the process of opening graves to fix the numbers of victims only?  How will victims' victims be treated?  Will the crime be investigated?  What will be the location and status of the survivors of these graves? Will they be (eyewitnesses)? Will there be any actions to do this and the intent to commit mass murder, which was clear to annihilate Yezidis"?


The Yazidi activist added that "There are several decisions that require standing up to know the negative impact of the process of opening graves on the genocide and verifying the sincerity of the intent of the perpetrators of members of the organization " ISIS " for the commission of mass murder with the aim of annihilation of the Ealezidians, so we must know precisely the status of the file of mass murder in Iraqi legislation, A question worth stopping".


A member of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Iraq Faten Hilfi said that "the total mass graves in Sinjar 76 graves after the discovery of nine graves in the recent period, which contains the remains of the victims of Yezidis who died by the organization ISIS."


Yazidi jurist Sarab Elias said that "the mass graves of Yazidis discovered in the cemetery were identified in the middle of March 2019. They were accompanied by religious and official decrees. The first cemetery was opened in the village of Kujou which was subjected to genocide alone and the rest of the tombs will be opened successively. They aim to be actions and work at the level of the file's status and the spiritual and moral value of the Yezidi issue".


The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said that "hundreds of Sinjar residents of Yazidis were killed by ISIS Evidence suggests that hundreds of Kujou's men, teenage boys and women who are seen as unable to have children have been killed by fighters calling in August 2014, while more than 700 women and children have been abducted.


It was understood that women and girls over the age of nine had been forced into sexual slavery where they had suffered a wide range of abuses and boys over the age of seven were said to have been forcibly recruited to fight as part of an "ISIS".


The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said that the tragedy inflicted on the victims and their families should urge the Iraqi government to move forward in support of those who survived and document the crimes committed against the victims in recognition of the suffering they experience.