{"id":23454,"date":"2016-01-30T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=23454"},"modified":"2016-01-30T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:50:58","slug":"report-on-mass-graves-of-yazidis-in-sinjar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/report-on-mass-graves-of-yazidis-in-sinjar\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on Mass Graves of Yazidis in Sinjar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Matthew Barber<\/p>\n

Yazda is a Yazidi humanitarian and advocacy organization founded after the attempted genocide of the Yazidis by IS on Aug. 3, 2014. Beginning this past fall, I took a one-year leave of absence from my PhD program at the University of Chicago to serve as Executive Director for Yazda during this period of urgent need. The accompanying responsibilities have unfortunately kept me away from Syria Comment of late.<\/p>\n

One of Yazda’s projects is to document the crimes of genocide that were committed against the Yazidi people. Our genocide documentation project focuses on examining physical evidence of mass graves (bones, clothing, grave mounds) while gathering survivor testimonies to corroborate the physical evidence that we find.<\/p>\n

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Bones and skull fragments of Yazidis killed by IS near Sinjar City. The civilians that were massacred at this site were attempting to flee to safety when they were rounded up by jihadists and brought to this site in trucks. Evidence of clothing found by Yazda suggests that men, women, and children were executed at this site. Photo: Yazda<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Yazda is now issuing a full report on the mass graves in Sinjar, which is available on the Yazda website<\/a>. VICE News has just published the full report here<\/a>, and Human Rights Watch and Yazda have released a joint press statement<\/a> on the urgency of protecting and performing forensic analyses of the mass graves.<\/p>\n

The full report is also available for download here<\/a>, and can be read in the PDF viewer below.<\/p>\n

Click to access Yazda-Report-on-Mass-Graves-Jan-28-2016.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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