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One Iraqi-Yezidi member of parliament collapsed after a tearful and feverish speech, urging the government and international forces to help her people
As we speak there is genocide taking place against the Yezidis. My family is being butchered. Fiyan Dakhee, a Yezidi member of Iraqs parliament said in an impassioned speech yesterday, translated by Bloomberg. My family is being butchered.
Our women are being used as concubines and sold in the markets. Please save us, Save us.
Dakhee said 30,000 families had fled, and had been without food and water for 48 hours, adding that 70 children and 50 elderly Yezidis had already died of thirst and exhaustion in hiding. More than 500 men had already been executed by ISIS she said, her eyes thick with tears. "An entire religion is being exterminated from the face of the earth. Brothers, I appeal to you for the sake of humanity, save us."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/06/fiyan-dakhee-faints-yezidi-iraq-isis_n_5654193.html
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)The world should not stand silent when children are being murdered.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)But then again would you trust the Powers/Wolfowitz axis to get it right?
Most people in that part of the world think the yakazi are devil worshipers. Loss of central authority means these folks die.
Hearing the story of these poor people makes me want to send in the Big Red One. But those days are past. We lack the will as a people. I know I do.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth