Effective Protection of Ethnic and Religious-Ethnic Groups against Acts of Racial
Discrimination (Articles 2, 5 & 6):
Despite the issuance of the Iraqi Council of Ministers Resolution No. (92) of 2014
containing the approval on considering what the Iraqi people components of the
Yazidis, Turkmen, Christians, and Shabak had exposed by Daesh terrorist gangs as a
crime of genocide; and the Decision of the Iraqi Council of Representatives No. (43) of
2016 included taking the necessary measures by government to release the Yazidi
abducted Women, reconstruct Sinjar district and restore services and infrastructure
for the district; the Commission indicated that there are many Yazidi abductees of
(3288) persons who their fate unknown until now, where the Commission approached
the General Secretariat Of the Council of Ministers to instruct the relevant ministries
and bodies like (Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Defense and the Popular Mobilization
Forces) to detect for the fate of the abductees, and approached the Reconstruction
Fund of Affected Areas and Nineveh Provincial Council to give a major and exceptional
importance to the reconstruction and rehabilitation of devastated areas in Sinjar
district and its villages.
IHCHR notes here the statistics of Yazidis who were targeted by Daesh terrorist gangs
up to 3/6/2018 as follows2:
1. The number of Yezidis before Daesh terrorist gangs' attacks was (550000)
persons, while after Daesh's attacks, the number of displaced Yazidis reached
to (360000) displaced persons.
2. The number of Yazidis who were killed and targeted by Daesh is (1293) victims.
3. The number of orphans who lost both parents due to crimes of Daesh is (2745)
orphans.
4. The number of the total abductees (6417) persons (3548 women and 2896
men).
5. The number of mass graves (68) cemetery, the Commission observed the
procedures of the committees on the opening of mass graves in Sinjar were
obstructed by the influential security authorities.
6. The number of destroyed shrines and places of worship is (68).
7. The total released persons (3,200) persons (1150 women \ 337 men \ 946
female children \ 867 male children).
8. The number of persons still kidnapped and whose fate is not known so far is
(3,177) persons (1452 women and 1665 men).
2)
According to the visit of the IHCHR team in Nineveh to the Yazidi Affairs Department in Erbil on
30\7\2018.
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