Brenda Stoter is a Dutch journalist who writes about the Middle East.

Her articles have been published by Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, The New Arab, The Telegraph, and Al Monitor as well as featured in Dutch/Belgium newspapers and magazines, including Trouw, Algemeen Dagblad, Opzij, De Tijd, MO*, and De Groene Amsterdammer. She has master’s degrees in sociology and in media and journalism from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Her second thesis was about the Iraq war in the media.

Brenda also works as a fixer and translator in The Netherlands, and writes a weekly column for the Dutch daily Algemeen Dagblad.

Her first book is called ‘Het vergeten volk: het verhaal van de Jezidi’s over de laatste genocide’ (Forgotten people). In the summer of 2014, ISIS invaded the region of Sinjar in northern Iraq. Their aim was to systematically exterminate the Yezidis, an ethnic minority with its own ancient religion and culture. The men were murdered while the women and girls were sold into slavery; sons were forced to become child soldiers and the youngest children were sold to ISIS families. Brenda Stoter Boscolo travelled to Iraq to write about the Yezidi genocide.

Brenda Stoter Boscolo

Basic information

Name
Brenda Stoter Boscolo
Title
Journalist and writer
Country
Netherlands
City
Rotterdam
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Hidden Sorrow: The Jezidi Victims of Belgian Jihadists

  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Organised crime

What is the involvement of Belgian jihadists in the genocide that IS carried out against the Jezidi community? Now that the Belgian parliament has acknowledged the genocide, Brenda Stoter Boscolo and Bruno Struys went to Iraqi Kurdistan with that question in mind. They talked to official sources, but above all had hours of interviews with the Yezidis themselves.

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The forgotten people: The story of the Yazidi about the last genocide

  • Armed conflict
  • Human Rights
  • Religion

ARBIL - In the summer of 2014, IS invaded the Sinjar region in northern Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of residents fled to Iraqi Kurdistan, or to Mount Sinjar, not knowing that help would come days later. Without food or water many died of exhaustion. But IS had come not only to expand the Caliphate, but also to eradicate the Yazidi, a community with its own religion and an ancient culture. Fate awaited residents who were locked down by IS. The men were killed; women and girls sold as slaves and boys were put in IS training camps.

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