Sinjar District Buries 41 Yazidi Remains Killed by ISIS
2024-01-24T12:40:47+00:00
Shafaq News/ On Wednesday, Sinjar District held a funeral ceremony for the remains of 41 Yazidis, including women, who fell victim to ISIS in 2014 and had been buried in mass graves.
Jalal Khalaf, Director of the District Attorney's Office in Sinjar, said the remains of the victims were buried in cemeteries across villages in the Sinjar district, highlighting that the bodies were first transported to Baghdad for DNA testing before being handed over to their families.
In October 2014, ISIS captured the Sinjar district in Nineveh Governorate. The terrorist organization kidnapped thousands of Yazidi women, children, and men; in addition, the group used women for sexual slavery.
