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The plight of the religious community of Yazidis, who were massacred two years ago in Sinjar in what the U.N. deemed to be a genocide.
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Displaced individuals from the minority Yazidi order, escaping viciousness from strengths faithful to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian fringe on the edges of Sinjar mountain close to the Syrian bordertown of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 11, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said
Yazidi female contender Asema Dahir, 21, keeps protect amid an organization at a site close to the bleeding edge of the battle against Islamic State activists in Nawaran close Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
A uprooted contender from the minority Yazidi order, who fled the viciousness in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, venerates at their primary sacred sanctuary Lalish in Shikhan September 20, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
A young lady from the minority Yazidi faction, escaping the savagery in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian outskirt crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk territory August 13, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
Yazidi sisters, who got away from imprisonment by Islamic State (IS) aggressors, sit in a tent at Sharya outcast camp on the edges of Duhok area July 3, 2015. The sisters were among one hundred ladies, men and kids taken by IS as detainees after the aggressors assaulted their town of Tal Ezayr in the northern Iraqi territory of Mosul near Syrian outskirt a year ago. REUTERS/Ari Jala
Yazidi female contender Asema Dahir (L), 21, holds a weapon as she rides a pickup truck amid an organization close to the bleeding edge of the battle against Islamic State activists in Nawaran close Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Relatives of a Peshmerga contender executed in a suicide assault in Sinjar territory, grieve before the body is taken to an entombment service at a graveyard zone for the Yazidi minority, in Sharya, on the edges of Duhok, March 4, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
A dislodged man and a lady from the minority Yazidi group, escaping viciousness from powers faithful to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian fringe, on the edges of Sinjar mountain, close to the Syrian bordertown of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 11, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said
Iraqi volunteers from the Yazidi order sit on the ground amid a preparation camp at the Serimli army installation, which is controlled by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), in Qamishli, northeastern Syria on the outskirt with Kurdistan August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
Displaced individuals from the minority Yazidi organization, escaping viciousness from strengths faithful to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian fringe, on the edges of Sinjar mountain, close to the Syrian bordertown of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 10, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said
A dislodged lady from the minority Yazidi organization, escaping brutality in Iraq, watches out from a deserted house where she is taking asylum in the southeastern Turkish town of Silopi, close to the Turkish-Iraqi fringe intersection of Habur, August 13, 2014. REUTERS/Kadir Baris
A volunteer from the Yazidi organization who have joined the Kurdish peshmerga powers postures for a photo in the town of Sinjar, Iraq November 16, 2015. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari
A uprooted young lady from the minority Yazidi order, who fled the brutality in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, stands at Nowruz displaced person camp in Qamishli, northeastern Syria on the outskirt with Kurdistan August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
Displaced individuals from the minority Yazidi faction, escaping brutality from strengths faithful to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, ride a truck as they advance towards the Syrian fringe, on the edges of Sinjar mountain, close to the Syrian bordertown of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 10, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said
A man and his better half from the minority Yazidi faction, escaping the brutality in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, convey their youngsters as they re-enter Iraq from Syria at the Iraqi-Syrian fringe crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk territory, August 14, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
Salma, a 10-year-old Iraqi young lady of the Yazidi confidence, postures for a photo at a stopgap camp for displaced people and transients at the Greek-Macedonian fringe, close to the town of Idomeni, Greece March 17, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
Displaced ladies from the minority Yazidi order, who fled savagery in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, practice yoga at Sharya evacuee camp on the edges of Duhok area, December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Ari Jalal
Displaced families from the minority Yazidi organization, escaping the brutality in the Iraqi town of Sinjar west of Mosul, take shelter at Dohuk region, August 4, 2014. REUTERS/Ari Jalal
Freed Yazidi kid Murad, 9, who was prepared by Islamic State, grins at an exile camp close to the northern Iraqi city of Duhok April 19, 2016. The stories of young men from the minority Yazidi people group now living in an exile camp close to the northern Iraqi city of Duhok seem to show endeavors by Islamic State to make another era of warriors faithful to the gathering's philosophy and inured to its compelling violence.
Ilham, a Yazidi lady, creases the drape of the tent where she lives in an outcast camp close Duhok February 26, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih