Yazidi tricked into abandoning their children

Women with sons and daughters born as a consequence of sexual violence

Yazidi women forced to marry IS fighters are also struggling to deal with the psychological wounds. 

Yazidi women and girls subjected to sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters have given birth to hundreds of boys and girls. Many of them have been denied a place in the Yazidi community due to various factors, including the position of the Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council and the current legal framework in Iraq, which establishes the obligation to register every Muslim as a Muslim. “unknown” or Muslim father.

Several women interviewed by Amnesty International stated that they had been pressured, coerced, or even tricked into abandoning their children, causing serious psychological distress. They had also been falsely assured that they could visit their children or be reunited with them at a later stage.
All of the women interviewed who had been separated from their children said that they had had no contact with or access to them, and that they felt unable to speak to their family or community about their desire to be reunited with their children because they feared for their own safety.

Janan *, 22, said,

 “I want to say to [nuestra comunidad] And to all the people in the world who please accept us, who accept our children … I did not want to have a child of those people. They made me have it. I would never ask to meet his father, but I need to meet my son. “

This is what Hanan *, 24, who had her daughter taken from her, relates:

 “I have the same feeling as the rest of the mothers [que se encuentran en la misma situación]. We have all thought about taking our lives, or we have tried … We are human, we have rights, and we want our children to be with us. It does not matter what we have experienced with the Islamic State; the situation we are going through now is much worse. We need a solution. “

Matt Wells of Amnesty International says:

These women were enslaved, tortured, and subjected to sexual violence. They should not suffer any other punishment.

Amnesty International calls on international organizations such as UNHCR to prioritize these women and children and to expedite their resettlement or humanitarian relocation, with the cooperation of national authorities and foreign governments.

“These women were enslaved, tortured, and subjected to sexual violence. They should not suffer any other punishment. They must be able to reunite with their sons and daughters, and any future separation must be avoided. They should be offered the opportunity for international resettlement or relocation together with their sons and daughters, taking into account the enormous danger they face in Iraq, “

said Matt Wells.

Yazidi health crisis

Many Yazidi children were killed when IS overran their homeland in 2014. Now 6 years later, children of the Yazidi religious and ethnic minority who survived brutal captivity at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq are suffering severe physical and mental health problems.

Amnesty International says that almost 2,000 Yazidi minors who have returned to their families after living under the captivity of the armed group calling itself Islamic State suffer a physical and mental health crisis.

When IS stormed into their ancestral heartland in northern Iraq, the Yazidis fled to Mount Sinjar. Many were killed and some 7,000 women and girls were seized and enslaved. Many of them were raped.

Some of the boys lost limbs in battle, while some girls who were raped may never be able to have children. Amnesty is calling for enslaved Yazidi women who had the babies of IS fighters to be resettled with their children abroad.

The 56-page report of Amnesty International reveals the significant difficulties now facing the approximately 1,992 children who have returned to their families after being kidnapped, tortured, forced to fight, raped, and subjected by the Islamic State to many other terrible human rights abuses.

“Although the nightmare of their past is behind them, these children continue to have difficulties. Having endured the horrors of war at an extremely young age, they now need the urgent support of Iraqi national authorities and the international community to build their future, “

said Matt Wells, deputy director of Crisis Response for Thematic Issues at Amnesty International.

“These children, survivors of heinous crimes, now face a legacy of terror. In the coming years, priority should be given to their physical and mental health so that they can fully reintegrate into their family and community. ”

Yazidi, they who were created

Conical roofs characteristic of Yazidi sites mark the tomb of Şêx Adî in Lalish (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yazidi comes from "Azdaim" which means "I was created". They say they follow God and His angels. For them there is only One God Who has good and bad in His Hands. They are not against any religion and are not against any people.

The Yazidi or Ezidis have been oppressed for many years by the Ba'athists, Al Qaeda,  and now IS. According to one of the preachers it is because they are a small community of believers, a closed religion of a people of faith, mercy and humanity, which does not have much contact with the world, and by being humble an opportunity is taken by others to oppress them. Others want to annihilate them and not having their own state to defend themselves, not having weapons, they need protection.

They just want to live in peace and do not want a specific country for them because according to their faith the world (or globe) is a garden for every one. In a garden are many flowers and they consider them also one of the flowers which can give colour to the garden.



Many Kurds know the Ezidis as refugees, IDPs, even as devil worshippers - though mostly through biased media reports. Kawa wants to learn the truth about the people’s religion and daily life. In a ZLR episode Kawa goes to a Ezidi community in Lalesh, the main Yazidi temple complex in the KR. He meets a young man called Zaid, who shows Kawa various aspects of Ezidi life; from how they eat, to prayer in their temple, to who is protecting them from IS. Zaid and his family were on Mount Sinjar and along with others subjected to much horror and deprivation.

In a video on Middle East Alliance Community Baba Chawesh tells about that garden and his people

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