What's happened to Iraq's Yazidis?

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, militants of the Islamic State group set out to destroy the ancient, minority Yazidi community of northern Iraq. Thousands were murdered, thousands of Yazidi women and children were enslaved and brutalised. Since the defeat of IS in 2017, the traumatized community has tried to recover. And yet, as Rachel Wright reports, more than 100,000 Yazidis remain stuck in camps, unable to return to their homes.

Photo: Bahar, a Yazidi survivor, holds a picture of her missing husband and son. She and her family were captured by Islamic State in 2014. (BBC)

Presenter: Rachel Wright Producer: Alex Last Sound Mix: Neva Missirian Production Coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross Series Editor: Penny Murphy

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0:19.6	The Global News Podcast.
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0:24.6	Welcome.
0:26.4	In the green rolling hills of the Kurdish region of Northwest Iraq,
0:30.7	hundreds of people are on a pilgrimage to a special temple complex.
0:35.5	They walk barefoot along Stone streets,
0:38.3	past huge, fluted, conical stone pyramids,
0:41.8	and into temples carved into the rocks.
0:44.8	This is Lallesh, the holiest place for the Yazidis,
0:48.7	a minority ethnic community that dates back thousands of years.
0:54.2	Yazidis means one of the oldest or most agents,
0:58.2	religions and culture in the history,
1:01.4	especially in the Middle East.
1:03.0	It goes back to many thousand years ago, at least 6,000 years.
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