Slaves Under The Shade Of The Islamic Caliphate ISIS Captured, Sold, & Raped Yazidi’s

Who are Yazidi’s? Where they are geographically based? What was the historical relation between Yazidi’s and their Islamic surroundings historically? How did they survive? The majority of the Yazidi population lives in Iraq, where they make up an important minority community. Estimates of the size of these communities vary significantly, between 500,000 and 700,000. The global population of Yazidis is estimated to be between 700,000 and one million people. Before the Daesh assaults in the summer of 2014, approximately 600,000 Yazidis lived across various regions in northern Iraq with the greatest concentration – approximately 400,000 – living in the district of Sinjar. Since the Daesh attacks in August 2014, almost the entire Yazidi 6 community in the Sinjar region has been displaced, killed or captured. These population numbers are rough estimates, and it is difficult to know how reliable any one estimate may be