Yezidi Genocide In Iraq: A Case Study

Islamic States of Iraq and Sham ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, al Qaeda in Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Islamic State, Da’ish is an active group formed c. 2014. ISIS is a terrorist group that sole purpose is pushing their beliefs on others and if their religion isn’t accepted in the appropriate way (how they expected) they then result to violence. Da’ish is the official name of the terrorist group known as ISIS, dramatically arrived and shocked many people in the West. The horrifying and violent events that have occurred since the appearance if ISIS struck fear into the hearts of people all across the world. Even though fear is an extreme emotion, the hatred that came with it is even stronger and is more Ernest.

ISIS stands for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It is referred as a terrorist group by the United States, whereas ISIS considers themselves to be an army instead. ISIS has been responsible for many gruesome attacks all over the world one of them being the execution of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh. They originated from Al-Qaeda in Iraq but they had big ambitions by kicking America out and setting up an Islamic state. To this date hold their land there unlike other groups like Al-Qaeda and Taliban. They have a huge support from people as their count being over 30,000 soldiers and followers. They are heavily armed, can fund themselves, have an organized infrastructure, and can cause a lot of damage. Later in 2006, their brutality lost them the support of Iraqi Sunnis who partnered with US forces to help push them out of the country. And for this incident, America takes a lot of credit for this and call it the Surge in which they helped Sunnis rise up against Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s rule. This led to Al-Qaeda in Iraq being defeated but not destroyed by only being driven out of the land they used to control and later they began rebuilding themselves by being involved in the fighting in Syria as they were trying to throw the Shiite Assad regime. Due to their brutal and severe tactics, Al-Qaeda disavowed Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Later in February 2014, the group Al-Qaeda in Iraq

They were treated as second class citizens due to the lack of religious tolerance displayed by the Ottomans. According to Dictionary.com genocide is “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial,political, or cultural group” (np). The Genocide started on April 24, 1915 with the rounding up and execution of over two hundred influential Armenians while leaving their cruelly mutilated bodies in public squares. From this point on Death Marches and raids on churches became the status quo for the Armenian people. Under the guise of deportation out of the war zones affected by the great war, hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forcefully removed from their homes and brought to death camps. All the able men were inducted into the Ottoman army only to be killed soon after they had done labor for the army.

The terrorist group is widely known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Recently many political leaders have been attempting to change the terminology by calling the organization Daesh the Arabic equivalent of the English acronym ISIS. The use of acronyms in Arabic are rare

I have selected to look at the Armenian genocide as the central topic for my Senior Project. The Armenian Genocide is the term given to the systematic killings of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire during the first World War. This event is important because it is argued to be the first modem genocide and was one of the events studied in the attempt to define what a genocide is. The Armenian genocide is so important for study because of it's close relation to the creation of the nation of Turkey and the national identity to Armenian diaspora found around the world. The hundred years sense the start of the killings in 1915 have been a rocky road. The Turkish government refuses to recognize the event as a genocide and this has had

In the first few days, more than 10,000 people were captured by ISIS in the month of August, and that number has only grown over the past couple of years. Many people who escaped did not survive in the high of 122° fahrenheit without food, water, or medical aid. The identification process of Yazidi people was simple for ISIS. They were seperated from families into men, women, elderly, young girls, young boys, and babies. All are forced to convert, and if they refuse this, they will be killed. Young boys are most valuable to ISIS because of the influence, they could have on the boys. The boys are trained in camps to follow Islamic beliefs, become fighters, bombers, executioners, and are destined to become kamikazes. Women were forced to convert

2. Isis is an Iraqi terrorist group who is trying to gain more control over the war torn country. The group has “a reputation for brutal rule in the areas that it controls”(CNN). Many innocent civilians have been killed due to the inhumane acts that this group has committed. They have been named “the most cash-rich militant group in the world”(CNN).

At the beginning of the twentieth century from 1915 to 1923 conflicts arose between a group called the Young Turks and Armenians in the Ottoman empire. Many Armenians were driven from their homes and forced to march from the land they once called home to the deserts of Syria. Others were killed in massacres that took place across the Ottoman empire and those who remained were forced to convert. During the eight year genocide about one and a half million Armenians perished and another million were deported. Tragedies like these lead many to wonder how humans could commit such awful crimes towards each other. Religious differences, political suspicions, and treating Armenians as social inferiors were issues between Turks and Armenians that led up to, and exploded during the Armenian Genocide.

Jayden: Starting in 1915, the Turkish government stimulated a plan to exterminate Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Most sources agree that there were around 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. By the early 1920s, when the manslaughter and deportations finally ended, 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians were deceased, with many more forcefully removed from their homeland in the Ottoman Empire.The genocide left the Armenian community in a wreckage , and present-day Armenia is only a fragment of the size of Armenia before the disastrous massacre committed by the Ottoman Empire.

In the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish government put into motion a plan to murder and massacre several Armenians that lived in the Ottoman Empire. One of the main reason the genocide began was because the Armenians were asking for more equal rights. The Armenian Genocide was not necessary.At the time of the massacre.there were about 2 million Armenian’s in the Ottoman empire. By the time the massacre ended, there were about 1.5 million Armenians dead, many were also removed from the country. The Armenians were discriminated by the Ottoman, many Armenians began to ask for equal rights because of the tend toward constitutional governments in Europe. There was a decline of power in the ottoman empire and major military losses during WWI, which

The Immigration crisis in Europe captured the world attention. Last year there was almost one million refugee flow to Europe. The increase of political crises in the whole world has made from immigration is the only way to survive from death or an unpredictable future. Therefore the emigrants from all over the world seek to asylum in European counters because they assume it's well the gate of their dreams to have a stable future for them and for their children. Consequently, with increasing of the political crisis in the world has made from immigration is the only solution to escape from political, demographic, religious conflicts unsolved problems as in Iraq and Afghanistan. The citizens in Arab communities were the victims

On these days 3 years ago, IS' followers attacked the Yazidi's towns. They kidnapped, raped, and killed the innocent people who were living there. As well, they confiscated the houses of the Yazidis, which later became rubble.

There is a grave complexity in defining Kurdish nationalism as it has developed into modern Middle Eastern countries. Calculating to a population of over 25 million, they are the largest minority in the world to not have their own state. Their nationalist movement has remained resilient in three pivot countries: Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. Kurds have been active in the country of Syria as well, since the 1980’s. Kurdish diaspora has existed in western Europe where long-distance nationalism has been promoted. In the strife for human rights, the Kurds have suffered as any other people would in the Middle East. They have faced massacre, poison gas, mass deportation, and linguistic discrimination. The three states that

Genocide is the ultimate expression of hatred and contempt. There is only one place for it in the human rights discussion, which is at the very top. There is no crime more heinous than the extermination or attempt to exterminate a people because of their race, nationality, or religion. Currently, the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) is killing Yazidis (Yezidi), a Kurdish speaking religious minority. By the thousands in Syria and Iraq. The men are slaughtered and the women and children are kept as sexual slaves. The local government is a mess in both nations and some would say under siege themselves. The International Community has done little more than issue a UN report called “They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes against the Yazidis.” These people

The Yazidi religious minority was a subject to extreme violence perpetrated by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq in 2014. This thesis argues that the violence was genocidal in nature and aimed to destroy the Yazidi group as such. Using theories from sociology, it seeks to explain how the violence caused a tremendous social change within the Yazidi community, instead of concentrating on numbers, legal, or political viewpoints. The study further revised concepts of terrorism and perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrates that the perpetrator does not necessarily need to be a state, but another kind of strong organization can be capable of committing such atrocities as well.