Nineveh governor admits state failed the Yazidis
Shafaq News- Sinjar
Nineveh Governor Abdul Qader al-Dakhil acknowledged Monday that Iraqi authorities have fallen short in their handling of several issues affecting the Yazidis, a religious minority in northern Iraq.
Speaking at a ceremony in Sinjar, a mostly Yazidi district in Nineveh province, marking twelve years since ISIS carried out a genocide against the community, al-Dakhil said that the provincial government “feels a deep responsibility toward the Yazidis, and his presence at the ceremony was meant as more than a gesture.”
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On the mass graves, al-Dakhil pointed out that the task of recovering and identifying victims falls to the Martyrs Foundation, the federal Iraqi body responsible for that work. Beyond Sinjar, graves remain in Mosul and Tal Afar, along with al-Khasfa, a sinkhole near Mosul that he said holds more than 20,000 victims, including elderly Yazidis.
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