SULAIMANI (ESTA) — A fire on Saturday broke out at a camp housing internally displaced Yezidis in Zakho, Duhok province, Esta has learned.
A fire broke out at the “Bervise” camp which hosts Yezidis who have fled from their homeland, Sinjar, in the wake of Islamic State (ISIS) offensives in 2014.
The fire did not cause any casualties but resulted in material damages, according to information Esta has obtained.
ISIS militants overran the Yazidi faith’s heartland of Sinjar in northern Iraq in 2014, forcing young women into servitude as “wives” for its fighters and massacring men and older women.
The militants shot, beheaded, burned alive, or kidnapped more than 9,000 members of the minority religion, in what the United Nations has called a genocidal campaign against them. According to community leaders, more than 3,000 Yazidis remain unaccounted for.
As many as 360,000 Yazidis had been displaced due to ISIS attacks. Up to 150,000 of them had returned to their areas, according to estimates.
