France Takes in More Yazidi Women, Children from Iraq

  • 8/8/2019
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France is taking in a new group of Yazidi women and children and helping them settle in the country, the French interior and foreign ministries said. According to the ministries, 31 families arrived Thursday in the southern French city of Toulouse from Erbil, Iraq. Previous groups of 16 and 28 families arrived in December and May. ISIS militants, who seized control of north Iraq in 2014, killed hundreds of Yazidi men while enslaving thousands of women and children. The UN called the attacks genocide. According to the Kurdistan regions Office for Yazidi Abductees, based in Dohuk, an estimated 3,425 Yazidis have been freed from a total of 6,417 abducted. The office said 1,921 children were saved out of 2,992 children. When ISIS was finally defeated in March, a number of Yazidi women and children emerged from the last militant-held sliver of land, a riverside village in southeast Syria called Baghouz.

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