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When ISIS Attacked, She Inspired the World to Act | National Geographic


my big challenge because I’m only Yazidi
female in the Iraqi parliament sometimes
I feel like I’m alone and I need someone
to help me how can I help those
community or those minorities
in the crack of August 2014 Isis
attacked the Yazidi community in Sinjar
and attacked their villages and telling
the men and kidnapping the women and
telling the children and all of those
Yazidi who are runaway to the mountain
to the Sinjar Mountain and some of them
died on the way and nobody make anything
about them all days think about very sad
story about my people and I ask everyone
to help them and nobody really I think
this speech became a change
everyone say oh this is a very big
problem for the city even Iraqi
government after that the Unitarian
aides are coming from international
countries I think the United States had
some idea about to help but after my
speech I think the United State
faster
fighting Isis is of course the priority
for the Kurdistan Regional Government
and for the Iraqi government however it
has to be a priority for the
international community and we
appreciate very much the u.s. first in
the airstrikes that protected at Beale
and other parts of Kurdistan last August
the airlifts that helped the Yazidis and
others on Mount Sinjar and then the
continuing support that we’re getting
from the United States and other
coalition partners so the international
community can do much much more in
providing humanitarian assistance to all
of the displaced but particularly the
Yazidis who have gone through such
incredible trauma it is not easy for a
woman in Iraq to become a member of
parliament especially if you a Kurdish
female and here’s EDA female I think
it’s a difficult maybe it’s a sensitive
for some people because that I say the
isis attacked everyone in Iraq attacked
the Muslim attacked Christian Shabak and
Turkmen also as a Muslim I have been
threatened by some groups sometimes some
of those escaped tell me you are on the
top of the ISIS list but I don’t care
about that
you
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