Yazidi Genocide - Seventh annual commemoration 2021

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Seventh Annual Commemoration
2021

Seventh Annual Commemoration 2021

Keeping the pressure: Assuring a sustainable future for Sinjar
We are honored to present an anthology of the documented speeches with words of deep solidarity and commitment to the Yazidi people and minority groups of Iraq on the occasion of the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide that was hosted on August 2-3, 2021. All speeches are available on the Yazda YouTube Channel.

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Haider Elias, Co-founder at Yazda at the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide

"In every year, we remind the world with what happened to the Yazidi community in 2014: enslavement of women and children, mass killings, forced displacement of an entire community, and destruction of their homes, religious temples and houses of worship."

— Mr. Haider Elias

Co-founder & President, Yazda Organization

Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi at the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide

"It is now for all Iraqi ministries and institutions to jointly coordinate on Sinjar. Therefore, we tasked our office [The Prime Minister’s Office] to supervise the coordination effort between relevant Iraqi ministries and institutions in all matters […]"

— H.E. Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi

Prime Minister, Republic of Iraq

Minister Salar Abdul Sattar at the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide

"[…] we are responsible for bringing the criminals against Yazidis to justice after securing sufficient evidence as a result of cooperation between the Iraqi courts & the international investigation team who proved that the crimes […] are genocide crimes."

— H.E. Minister Salar Abdul Sattar Muhammad

Minister of Justice, Republic of Iraq

Salwa Saido, member of YSN at the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide

"Finally, I would like to remind you that I am today a displaced, and I live in a camp away from my mother. I lost my studies and my parents. But I hold out hope that the international community will compensate me and compensate the remaining victims […]"

— Ms. Salwa Saido

Member, Yazda Yazidi Survivors Network

Zina Khallat Suleiman, member of YSN at the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide

"The systematic plan implemented by ISIS to destroy the Yazidi community went beyond the limits of the crime itself as they began to take our dignity by kidnapping and enslaving women and choosing them as cheap commodities for sale […]"

— Ms. Zinah Khallat Sulaiman

Member, Yazda Yazidi Survivors Network

Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako at the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide

"It is up to the government to take the responsibility and to embrace all the Iraqi components, to preserve them, to protect them, to secure their dignity, through a civic democratic state. "

— Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako

Patriarch, Babylon of the Chaldeans

Sheikh Dr. Anas Al-Esawi at the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide

"It is very important to overpass all the barriers that were erupted between the Iraqi society […] Like the Sufi masters say, it should acknowledge that this […] crime was committed against the Yazidis, all those perpetrators should be held accountable."

— Sheikh Dr. Anas Al-Esawi

Imam & Preacher, Gilani Mosque

Nadine Maenza at the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide

"We are hoping that there will be additional sanctions on people that are violators of religious freedom, but I did want to also mention that the State Department just announced an additional 155 million in funds to aid the people of Iraq and refugees […]"

— Ms. Nadine Maenza

Chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)

Lynn Zovighian at the Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Yazidi Genocide

"Every zone masterplan will need to be defined and designed with each respective community at the decision-making table. A masterplan will need to include community-led housing designs, but also integrate the key services and spaces for community assets."

— Ms. Lynn Zovighian

Co-founder & Managing Director,

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