Report On The Yazidi Genocide:
Mapping Atrocity In Iraq and Syria


​The Yazidi community continues to be persecuted under the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with unparalleled brutality. The Syrian Accountability Project (SAP) recently released a report outlining ISIS’ transgressions against the Yazidi Community and how their violence constitute war crimes according to the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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The SAP makes a case that ISIS demonstrated a systematic plan to destroy the Yazidi people in the form of kidnapping, rape, forced conversion, killing and forced removal. The most harrowing of examples is their forced human trafficking of the Yazidi women and children. 
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The Yazidi community has a long history of persecution in Iraq and Syria. Then, the Yazidi community was left unprotected when ISIS advanced in the summer of 2014. When ISIS destroyed a Shi’ite shrine in Sinjar and demanded a tax, SAP estimates that 40,000 to 50,000 Yazidi were forced to flee. Other were left brutalized leading to 9,120 victims.

The SAP estimates that of the 9,120 people victimized between August to September 2014, 20% were children. An estimated 2,843 record victims did not survive ISIS' brutality.

According to the SAP report, those whole fled into the mountains were left without access to food, water, or basic medical supplies. Children and the elderly were especially susceptible to death from dehydration and environmental exposure. ISIS also targeted many others for killing if they identified as Yazidi.
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​​The report warns that, "The Yazidi community deserves justice and international recognition for their historic courage and perseverance." ​The SAP recommends that the international community take proper care of the Yazidi community that have seen systematically targeted by ISIS to the point of genocide. 




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​03-24-2016
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Authors:
Kelsea Carbajal Cynthia Cline Edmond Gichuru Zachary Lucas Margaret Mabie Shelby Mann Joseph Railey Ashley Repp

Project Leader: Professor David M. Crane
Director: Joseph Railey
​Chief Registrar: Conor Sullivan Chief Investigator: Jasmine Greenfield Senior Editor: Shelby Mann Yazidi Project Team Lead: Margaret Mabie