2021-09-19
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.
IS has executed Yezidi men en masse and captured and enslaved their wives and children. Several women testify about the horror that some Belgians inflicted on them. Boys tell how they were sent to training camps by IS fighters to serve as cannon fodder. Belgians turn out to be involved in that too. Seven years after the start of the genocide, the Yezidis await trial. For most of them, this chapter is not yet closed.
Supported
€ 11.150 allocated on 28/06/2021.ID
FPD/2021/1855Grant
PRINT/ONLINE (in Dutch)
- Genocide op de jezidi in Irak: Belgische IS-leden hielden vrouwen als slaven in huis, De Morgen, 18/09/2021.
- IS was erg goed in beïnvloeden van jongens, De Morgen, 20/09/2021.
- Hoe de IS-genocide op jezidi’s de positie van de vrouw heeft veranderd. ‘Nu ben ik de kostwinner’, De Morgen, 21/09/2021.
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