The Yazidis Still Missing In Iraq

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🗓️ 8 September 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Some are buried in mass graves; others are still in the hands of Islamic State militants. Kate Adie introduces stories from Iraq, Chile, India, Colombia, and Sweden: Four years since IS swept through northern Iraq and carried out what the UN called a genocidal attack on the Yazidi people who lived there, Lyse Doucet returns to see what remains. Linda Pressly meets a Chilean woman who posed as a young boy online in her quest to get her local priesthood investigated. Vivienne Nunis learns how women and their pink rickshaws are transforming the working world in Jaipur - much to the disapproval of some local men. Nick Thorpe makes the long journey through the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range to reach the Ciudad Perdida – the Lost City which was abandoned by the indigenous people who once lived there when Spanish conquistadors arrived at the Colombian coast in the 16th century. And Gabriel Gatehouse has a mysterious but revealing encounter with a real-life troll in Stockholm.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:04.0	Hello. Today, uncovering abuse by Catholic priests in Chile,
0:08.8	we meet the woman who got the church and the police to investigate the allegations and the women changing the world of work in India one rickshaw ride at a time.
0:19.0	In the Colombian mountains we make the long journey to a lost city and in proudly liberal Sweden our
0:26.1	correspondent charts the rise of the anti-immigration right and has a mysterious
0:31.1	encounter with a real life troll.
0:35.0	It's just over four years since Islamic State or IS stormed through the area around Mount
0:41.6	Sinjar in northern Iraq and launched what the UN has
0:45.1	described as a genocidal attack on the Yazidi people who lived there. Women and
0:50.6	girls were enslaved. Men forced to fight for the militants, convert to Islam or face execution.
0:57.0	Today, hundreds of thousands of Yazidis now live in displacement camps scattered across Iraq's northern Kurdistan region.
1:06.4	Others are thought still to be in the hands of IS.
1:09.8	Leise-Drosette went to see what remains of one of the villages they were taken from.
1:14.9	The silence, that's what hits you first, and it never leaves you.
1:20.6	Streets without people or cars, Broken shells of empty homes, a school without school children.
1:28.1	Just silence. A chilling silence. This is Kocchio. The village Islamic State tried to wipe off the map. But Kocchio lives
1:37.6	in the mind of every villager who survived a massacre, in the memory of a monstrous campaign to eradicate the Azidhi's ancient
1:46.1	culture in this far corner of Iraq. Visiting Kocchio is like traveling across a mammoth crime scene, a war crime.
1:56.0	On the second floor of the village school, traces remain, desks in a jumble coated with dust, mattresses strewn across the cement floor.
2:05.8	Camouflage clothing lies in a dirty heap.
2:09.4	In the room next door, a man's crumpled trousers, a woman's bra. Someone has scrawled a date in the dust, August 15, 2014.
2:21.0	That's the day I S marched. marched everyone in Cotia to this school and separated women from the men.
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