27 décembre 2014
Yazidi Refugees at Khanke camp in Iraq. Réfugiés Yazidi au camp Khanke en Irak.
© Alfred YAGHOBZADEH / Divergence
Yazidi Refugees in the Khanke camp, who were forced to flee their home because of Islamic State group (ISIS) captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. refugee camp called filled with hundreds of Yazidis, a religious minority group. The settlement, known as Khanki, is located in a province just north of Iraq's second largest city, Mosul. Tens of thousands of Yazidis were run out of their homes. the Iraq's Yazidi religious minority as they hide from the Islamists who call them "devil worshippers" and will kill them if they try to return to their homes. The Yazidis are a small community that follows a 4,000-year-old faith and have been repeatedly targeted by jihadists who call them "devil-worshipers" because of their unique beliefs and practices. Khanke-Iraq
Lieu : DOHUK, IRAQ
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