Merkel calls for granting Yazidis protected areas in Iraq

Merkel calls for granting Yazidis protected areas in Iraq

Saturday, 14/01/1438 e - corresponding to 15/10/2016 AD (updated) 20:57 pm (Mecca), 17:57 (GMT)



Displaced Aesideon fled the fighting in their areas of northern Iraq to Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region (island-archive)


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It called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday to study plans to give Iraqi Yazidis who forced them to organize the Islamic state to leave their homes protected areas can return to them in the north of the country.

Merkel told the Christian Democrats , the Association of Students of the Conservative party conference , "To be honest with you, the plans have not yet been completed, but the priorities of the agenda", adding that it is necessary to discuss this with the Yazidis and forces peshmerga Kurdish in northern Iraq .

The investigators of the United Nations pointed out that the state regulation have carried out genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, to destroy this religious community , numbering four hundred thousand people.

He asked the leaders of these minority Internationally Protected management autonomy they claim in their region in northern Iraq in the framework of the Iraqi state.

And emerged as the Yazidi community name in the international media as the victim of a state regulation during its expansion in Iraq, and the international community to act for the relief of its members after their displacement from their homes in the district of Sinjar .

Revealed reports of exposure to a wide violations such as the captivity of women and men being killed, but they later accused of forming an armed militia committed itself practices against residents of Arab villages in the west of Sinjar in Nineveh province in northern Iraq Rabia area.

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