The Yazidi people after the liberation of Sinjar, Iraq. (World 2017, by Kristian Skeie) - Swiss Press Award
Kristian Skeie
On top of Sinjar Mountain, you can see what is left of Sinjar City, to the right in the picture. The straight road in the middle is near the frontline and ISIS still occuopies the villages to the left in this photo.
Global Geneva
Photo / World
2017
Kristian Skeie
ISIS fighters, who had conquered Mosul two months earlier, attacked the Yazidi villages of Girzarek and Siba Sheikh Khidir (August 3rd. 2014). The Yazidis had been protected by Kurdish Peshmerga forces but was left defenceless to ISIS’ mercy. It took four hours to defeat the Yazidi's; they did not have enough arms to resist the Jihadis. I visited in June 2016, 6 month after Sinjar was liberated.
