ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 2月11日 07時08分


A mass funeral for 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS was a stark reminder of how the terrorist group shattered a community that still fears for its future.

On Saturday, the remains of the victims, members of the Yazidi ethnic minority group, were returned to the village where, seven years earlier, ISIS rounded up and shot them, dumping their bodies into mass graves. The massacre became synonymous with the group’s campaign of genocide against the small religious minority.

Iraqi and international investigators exhumed the remains — including one more body returned elsewhere in the Sinjar district of northern Iraq — two years ago and identified them through DNA tests.

ISIS killed up to 10,000 Yazidis and captured more than 6,000, most of them women and children, in what the United Nations and Congress have called a genocidal campaign on the ancient group and other religious minorities in Iraq.

After the plain wooden coffins were buried in Kojo on Saturday, relatives threw themselves on the grave sites, with women tearing at their hair, screaming in anguish and calling to their loved ones in mingled grief that could be heard far beyond the edge of the now-abandoned village. Volunteers stood by with stretchers to take those who had fainted to a mobile clinic.

The mourning was amplified by the collective grief over the loss of an entire community, where almost all the men and older boys were killed. Saturday’s ceremony is expected to be repeated as the United Nations and other organizations comb through dozens of mass graves yet to be exhumed.

Tap the link in our bio to read more about how Yazidis are finally burying their loved ones. Photos by @ivorprickett


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