Online museum documenting crimes against Ezidis to open: MP

Ezidis plan to open an online museum to register and collect evidence and documents of the Ezidi’s genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (IS), a member of the Iraqi parliament stated.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – Ezidis plan to open an online museum to register and collect evidence and documents of the Ezidi’s genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (IS), a member of the Iraqi parliament stated on Sunday.

“In the near future, we will launch an online museum to document all the crimes committed against our people [Ezidis],” Vian Dakhil, a Kurdish Ezidi member in the Iraqi parliament, said in a statement published on the Kurdistan Democratic Party's (KDP) official website.

“Everyone can submit their stories to this museum project. The evidence will be officially registered by an international organization responsible for documenting the crimes,” she added.

IS occupied the Kurdish Ezidi-populated city of Sinjar (Shingal) and surrounding villages in Aug. 2014. Hundreds of thousands of Ezidis were displaced to Mount Shingal and the Kurdistan Region.

The jihadist group carried out mass executions against the Ezidis, labeling them as “unbelievers” or “infidels.” IS also kidnapped, raped, and sold enslaved Ezidi women in Mosul and Raqqa.

With the support of the Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani’s office, thousands of kidnapped Ezidis have been rescued from IS, yet many remain in the hands of the IS extremists in Iraq and Syria.

 

Editing by G.H. Renaud