#yezidi people

[divinum-pacis]

April 2024: Dohuk, Iraq Iraqi Yazidis light candles outside the Temple of Lalish in a valley near the Kurdish city during a ceremony marking the Yazidi new year Photograph: Safin Hamid/AFP/Getty Images

[vinecine]

Why aren't the left talking about the Yazidi people, women and girls in specific, who are being actively kidnapped, raped and murdered for not converting to islam? Why only eyes on one part of the world which is Palestine? Don't these people matter as much too? Or are you too afraid to speak up about the crimes of Islam?

[weepingfireflies]

People & countries mentioned in the thread:

DR Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank

Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International

Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights

Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF

Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News

Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)

Reblogs with Links / From Others

Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia

Libya

Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2

Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)

Rohingya (Myanmar)

More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution

From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi

From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)

From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis

West Sahara conflict

Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)

[ponfarrtimeatthevulcannightclub]

I'm gonna try to compile a list of resources for the genocides and humanitarian crisis going on so people will at least have a place to start so they can stay informed

Each place will have a link and then just click on the link to go to the resources. If yall have any you wanna recommend say it under the post of that place

Pls reblog the original posts so more people can see what’s been added

Hope this helps someone

Syria

Lebanon

Palestine

Sudan

Congo

Yemen

Iran

Morocco

Western Sahara

Armenia

Afghanistan

West Papua

Haiti

Tigray

Ukraine

Yezidi People

[hero-israel]

I mean, sandy hook wasn’t perpetrated by indigenous Americans

I see your point but it’s not necessarily an accurate comparison

Nothing prevents Native Americans from buying AR-15s. Native Americans absolutely physically could have committed Sandy Hook, along with every other school shooting you've heard of.

Why didn't they?

And if they did it, would you have less of a problem with it?

If "colonizers" "deserve it," then why was Brett Kavanaugh wrong for what he did to Christine Blasey Ford? Or are his actions only wrong based on whether or not he said "This is for the RESISTANCE!", and we have to stand patiently and watch him finish and listen to hear whether he says the magic words before we can judge?

Gonna blow your mind with this - maybe the entire frame of "liberating struggle" as mutated through a strongly culturally normalized lens of antisemitic violence and exterminationism is not a good basis of moral principle. The only thing "not the same" about any of these crimes is that some involve Jews, making those crimes understandable, and some don't, making them obviously pure evil.

To quote myself from exactly one year ago:

You never see Tibetans or Uighurs massacring hundreds of teenagers at a rock concert in China then packing the women onto rape trucks. Yezidis do not send suicide bombers into Arab old age homes on major holidays to kill off 3 generations of families. There is no way to view this topic without confronting the specifically anti-Jewish chauvinism, supremacism, and genocidalism that has been the norm in Arab and Muslim societies for a millennium or more. The entire "well, what do you EXPECT Palestinians to do??!" frame is pure colonialism. It says only Palestinians know how to have problems, only their tactics count, and anyone who doesn't bomb school buses either doesn't have problems or is doing it wrong.

You shouldn't feel like you have to rush to respond to this. Really, really think about it first. How normalized has society made it for you to listen to the excuses of people who torture and slaughter us? How are those excuses any better than those of anyone else who commits other crimes? Really think it through.

[1americanconservative]

@AzatAlsalim

Remember that 19 Yezidi girls were burned alive to death in iron cages by the ISlS for refusing to convert to Islam and become sex slaves. lSlS paraded them through the streets of Mosul, then burned them in front of hundreds of people. Not a single MusIim protested for Yezidis!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Old Man, right (sighing): Death to the fascists!” ― Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle

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“O blindness of the great! They go their way like gods, Great over bent backs, Sure of hired fists, Trusting in the power Which has lasted so long. But long is not forever. O change from age to age! Thou hope of the people!” ― Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle

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“When the houses of the great collapse Many little people are slain. Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging wain Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.” ― Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle

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"The "Caucasian chalk circle," as it's called in a play by Bertolt Brecht, or the circle that the Yezidis can't get out of, are part of much larger metaphors and have much more meaning than that. You can equate the circle with our prison, our mechanicality, our sleep. Each of us is bound by that circle, its illusion. The circle was real for the Yezidi. It was a psychological wall. We are all Yezidis, Devil worshippers. What do we worship? Money, power, sex, the illusion of life security? We're trapped in it. It's much bigger than just your family. Only something like the Work helps people who want to be free of these attachments. Gurdjieff says, "People are in prison, and they need the help of other people who have been in prison and escaped in order to get out.”

~ Jerry Brewster, 'Spiritual Physics'

Still from Peter Brook’s film 'Meetings with Remarkable Men'

[jewish-sideblog]

I lost any sympathy for the Palestinians when I learnt they were using US and EU aid to give money to those who stabbed or shot innocent civilians. If I wanted any group in the middle east to get its own state, I'd prefer civilized people like the assyrians, the druze, or the yezidis.

Conflating people with their governments is the primary reason that anti-Zionism becomes antisemitism, and you've fallen into the same trap. The Palestinian people do not deserve to suffer or die because their governments misappropriate funds. "Civilized people"? Seriously? You sound like a white supremacist with that Rudyard Kipling ass language. It's cruel and gross and essentialist.

I hope you find your sympathy again, but in the meantime, fuck off my blog.

[al-kol-eleh]

Azat Alsalem

This is something I've been angry about for a while now. The Yezidis (Yazidis) underwent a genocide. When ISIS forces took over their reigon, their avenues of escape were blocked, their men were killed,the girls and young women were sold into sexual slavery and the young boys were kidnapped and indoctrinated into becoming ISIS canon fodder. And at every step of the way, people qualified their statements so as not to be accused of "Islamophobia". The Yazidis still live in refugee camps. But every idiot and their nanny is protesting a non-existent genocide in Gaza!

[divinum-pacis]

A child is baptized in Lalish, the Yazidi’s most holy temple, in the Shekhan district of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)

[maaarine]

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Caroline Criado-Perez, 2019)

"For women who try to escape from war and disaster, the gender-neutral nightmare often continues in the refugee camps of the world.

‘We have learned from so many mistakes in the past that women are at a greater risk for sexual assault and violence if they don’t have separate bathrooms,’ says Gauri van Gulik, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Europe and Central Asia.

In fact international guidelines state that toilets in refugee camps should be sex-segregated, marked and lockable.

But these requirements are often not enforced. (…)

Female refugees regularly complain that the remote location of many toilets is worsened by a lack of adequate lighting both on the routes to the latrines and in the facilities themselves.

Large areas of the infamous Idomeni camp in Greece were described as ‘pitch-black’ at night.

And although two studies have found that installing solar lighting or handing out individual solar lights to women in camps has had a dramatic impact on their sense of safety, it’s a solution that has not been widely adopted.

So most women find their own solutions.

A year after the 2004 tsunami women and girls in Indian displacement camps were still walking in pairs to and from the community toilet and bathing facilities to ward off harassment from men.

A group of Yezidi women who ended up in Nea Kavala camp in northern Greece after fleeing sexual slavery under ISIS formed protection circles so they could accompany each other to the toilet.

Others (69% in one 2016 study), including pregnant women who need frequent toilet trips, simply don’t go at night.

Some women in reception centres in Germany have resorted to not eating and drinking, a solution also reported by female refugees in Idomeni, at the time Greece’s largest informal refugee camp.

According to a 2018 Guardian report, some women have taken to wearing adult nappies." (…)

The irony of ignoring the potential for male violence when it comes to designing systems for female refugees is that male violence is often the reason women are refugees in the first place.

We tend to think of people being displaced because of war and disaster: this is usually why men flee.

But this perception is another example of male-default thinking: while women do seek refuge on this basis, female homelessness is more usually driven by the violence women face from men.

Women flee from ‘corrective’ rape (where men rape a lesbian to ‘turn her straight’), from institutionalised rape (as happened in Bosnia), from forced marriage, child marriage and domestic violence.

Male violence is often why women flee their homes in low-income countries, and it’s why women flee their homes in the affluent West."

[mariacallous]

The Islamic State has created fake videos mimicking the look and feel of mainstream news outlets CNN and Al Jazeera, according to a new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shared exclusively with WIRED.

Launched in early March, the campaign was orchestrated by War and Media, a pro–Islamic State media outlet that typically creates long-form videos pushing the group’s ideology and history. The Islamic State, or ISIS, is a UN-designated terror group that perpetrated a genocide of the Yezidi population in Iraq and conducted multiple terrorist attacks, including the 2015 attacks in Paris that left 131 people dead; it has also promoted videos of its members beheading journalists and soldiers.

Central to the campaign were two YouTube channels. One was falsely branded as CNN and pushed English-language videos, and the other was branded with the Al Jazeera logo and pushed Arabic-language videos. The videos featured the logos of the real news outlets, and in the case of CNN, the videos also featured a real-time ticker along the bottom of the screen which changed to match the content being shown. The campaign also deployed a network of social media accounts branded to look like they were affiliated with news outlets, in what appears to be an effort to push ideology to new audiences.

In total, the campaign created eight original videos, four in each language, that discussed topics like the Islamic State’s expansion in Africa and the war in Syria.

One video also focused on the deadly attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow in March. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, and the video attempted to combat a disinformation narrative promoted by the Kremlin that Ukraine, not the Islamic State, was accountable.

“It was essentially fake news to debunk fake news,” Moustafa Ayad, the executive director for Africa, the Middle East, and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, tells WIRED.

Ayad also believes the campaign was a test run to ascertain how successful it would be in circumventing censorship efforts on mainstream Western platforms.

“It's the first time we've really seen a concerted effort by an Islamic State outlet to create this fake ecosystem of news that isn't branded as something that's affiliated with the Islamic State,” says Ayad. “It was very much a test of the system and now they know where there are weaknesses in their strategy.”

The videos remained on YouTube for a month and a half before they were removed by the company, but during that time, the videos were also downloaded and republished by Islamic State supporters on their own accounts. Some of those videos are still circulating online today, because they have not been added to the hash-sharing database that platforms use to coordinate the takedown of terrorist content.

“What they did was essentially build this entire little fake ecosystem of social media channels that are doppelgängers of news outlets,” Ayad says.

Each of the videos on YouTube racked up thousands of views, and while none of them went viral, it was “enough for the group to get some traction in circles outside where they would normally get [traction] and saw real people commenting under the videos,” says Ayad.

YouTube did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.

In the past, some ISIS supporters have sought to circumvent tech platforms’ moderation by placing the logo of services like Netflix or Amazon Studios on their videos. This attempt appeared to be more sophisticated.

“Those were just simply taking a logo and plugging it on top of the existing Islamic State logo,” says Ayad. “[The new campaign] was actually creating channels as those media outlets and then creating an entire newscast around a specific issue, using footage from a range of different sources—not just the Islamic State, but footage that you could find online or other news channel footage. We really saw it take off right after the Moscow attacks.”

The campaign is just the latest sign of the Islamic State’s growing sophistication in circumventing content moderation efforts. This report comes just a week after the Washington Post revealed that the group has been deploying an AI-generated news anchor in weekly news dispatches that are designed to reach English-language audiences.

“I have no doubt in my mind we will see more of this in the future,” says Ayad. “AI allows them to create more realistic graphics for news that mimic a lot of the new channels. We're gonna see more of that and it's going to get more and more difficult to identify this content.”

[ponfarrtimeatthevulcannightclub]

this is a list of resources abt what's happening to the yezidi people and if anyone has anymore please lmk so I can add them

link to other resources

[hero-israel]

While I agree that Israel has made it nearly impossible for any Palestinian political movement to actually engage with them in good faith to find a peaceful solution (or even a peaceful pathway to a solution) a lot of people seem to have run with that to “Hamas had no choice but to attack with such savagery!!!!” And 1) if you actually look at Hamas’ track record over the past 20 years or so it’s a whole lot of “well I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas” (tbh Hamas has tried one or two violent, terrible ideas that didn’t work out, but same diff) and 2) “well they hurt me so I’ll hurt them” is the morality of a five year old

You never see Tibetans or Uighurs massacring hundreds of teenagers at a rock concert in China then packing the women onto rape trucks. Yezidis do not send suicide bombers into Arab old age homes on major holidays to kill off 3 generations of families. There is no way to view this topic without confronting the specifically anti-Jewish chauvinism, supremacism, and genocidalism that has been the norm in Arab and Muslim societies for a millennium or more. The entire "well, what do you EXPECT Palestinians to do??!" frame is pure colonialism. It says only Palestinians know how to have problems, only their tactics count, and anyone who doesn't bomb school buses either doesn't have problems or is doing it wrong.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"The "Caucasian chalk circle," as it's called in a play by Bertolt Brecht, or the circle that the Yezidis can't get out of, are part of much larger metaphors and have much more meaning than that. You can equate the circle with our prison, our mechanicality, our sleep. Each of us is bound by that circle, its illusion. The circle was real for the Yezidi. It was a psychological wall. We are all Yezidis, Devil worshippers. What do we worship? Money, power, sex, the illusion of life security? We're trapped in it. It's much bigger than just your family. Only something like the Work helps people who want to be free of these attachments. Gurdjieff says, "People are in prison, and they need the help of other people who have been in prison and escaped in order to get out.”

~ Jerry Brewster, 'Spiritual Physics'

Still from Peter Brook’s film 'Meetings with Remarkable Men'

[Ian Sanders]

[sefardimjew]

Did Roma learned anything from the romani holocaust?

Did black people learned anything from slavery?

Did the yezidis/druze/mandeans/bahai Faith/zoroastrianians learned anything from

persecutions?

Did the armenians learned anything from the genocide?

Did the assyrians learned anything from the genocide?

Did the combodians learned anything from the genocide?

Did the bosniak learned anything from Srebrenica genocide?

Did the somalis learned anything from genocide?

Did the kurds learned anything from their genocide?

Did the bengali learned anything from their genocide?

Did the Chechens and Ingush learned anything from the genocide?

Did the crimean tatars learned anything from the genocide?

Did the croats and serbs learned anything from the genocide?

Did ukranians learned anything from the Holodomor?

Did the greeks learned anything from the pontic genocide ?

Did the Albanians learned anything from the genocide?

Did the circassian learned anything from the genocide?

Did native american learned anything from the genocide?

Did the Haiti learned anything from the genocide?

Did ughyur learned anything from the genocide?

People learn from the genocides so they dont do It again never ask the victims

"have jews learned anything from the holocaust?" well obviously you fucking haven't what the hell