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  • Natiq Haji Qassem, a 16 year old Yazidi from Khanasor, northern Iraq. <br />
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This is a series of portraits of Yazidi refugees who were stranded since April 2016 in Greece.  All of them survived the Yazidi Genocide by ISIS in August 2014 and most of them have lost family members.
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  • Yosif Baro Murad a 16 year old Yazidi from Khanasor, northern Iraq.<br />
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This is a series of portraits of Yazidi refugees who were stranded since April 2016 in Greece.  All of them survived the Yazidi Genocide by ISIS in August 2014 and most of them have lost family members.
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  • Salim Elias Khadeda a 15 year old Yazidi from Siba Sheikh Khidir, northern Iraq.<br />
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This is a series of portraits of Yazidi refugees who were stranded since April 2016 in Greece.  All of them survived the Yazidi Genocide by ISIS in August 2014 and most of them have lost family members.
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  • Dedlar Dakhil Khalaf a 9 year old Yazidi from Shingal town, northern Iraq.<br />
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This is a series of portraits of Yazidi refugees who were stranded since April 2016 in Greece.  All of them survived the Yazidi Genocide by ISIS in August 2014 and most of them have lost family members.
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  • In that place there were  2000 to 3000 Yazidi women and girls from many different towns and villages. In that place high ranking ISIS officers were coming all day long and taking women and girls with them. Sometimes they were taking up to 10 girls at the time. They were saying that now you belong to me, like slaves. Some of the Yazidi women and girls were taken to Raqqa  in Syria and other places.
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  • My mother and my 3 sisters kidnapped by ISIS.<br />
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It’s been more than two years and I don’t know anything about them, if they are killed or if they are still alive. <br />
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My father, after his wife and daughters got kidnapped, lost his mind. Now he is alone in Iraq and he is like crazy, because of the terrible  things that happened. <br />
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Out of 40 family members only me and my sister and 4 people from my sister in law’s family came back. Only 6 survived out of 40 people. <br />
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That didn’t happened only to my family, it happen to all the Yazidis.
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  • I saw many people, old people, grandparents, children all dead on the road. Their relatives left the bodies behind because they had to run, they had to escape. <br />
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You can only help the ones who are alive, you cannot do anything about the dead. <br />
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I saw kids, newborn babies, one month, two month old dead on the mountains and on the side of the road to Syria. More than 300 kids died on the way.<br />
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We didn’t have anything with us, we were walking for 36 hours and we were very very tired.
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  • I saw one who was 14 years old and he was very very thirsty. He was near to us and I saw him. His mother was running, she had a bottle of water on her hand and she was running towards him to give him water. When you are very thirsty you shouldn’t drink a whole bottle of water. <br />
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He drank about half of the bottle and he died in front of us. <br />
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I saw him with my eyes.
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  • In the mountain when I was very scared and thought I would die, I was taking strength from my older sisters. They were telling me “Be silent, don’t be afraid, it will pass and God will help us”.
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  • Three days after my brothers got kidnapped, my older brother received a phone call from the terrorists   “Both of them are with us safe and if you want to see them alive again you have to pay 6000 euros. If you don’t pay we will kill them” <br />
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My relatives managed to speak later on to my brothers. They said that even if you collect the money and give it to them still they will kill us. They gave us only two options - convert to Islam or die.
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  • Some of the girls had hidden their phones and they text us that they were taken to Mosul. <br />
Then ISIS took the women and the children to the high school of Kogo. They took some women who weren’t that beautiful, 40 -50 year old behind the school and we heard gunshots again. They killed the ugly women and the older women. The beautiful girls were kidnapped.<br />
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Pregnant women and women with kids were upstairs. Women over 40 who didn’t have children were executed. Beautiful and young women were taken by bus to Mosul. After they finished their first sorting  downstairs they went upstairs and took women with children and pregnant women to other muslim towns.
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  • A couple of days later my sister called me and said that ISIS gathered all the Yazidis, around 1700 people and took all their valuables. Then they separated men from women and children. Then they brought trucks and start taking away the men, group by group, 20 - 25 men at the time. <br />
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After a while they start hearing gunshots from outside the village. ISIS took some boys too, but they didn’t kill the ones who didn’t have hair on their legs, and they brought them back to their mothers. Those kids witness the execution of the men and told the women what happened.  <br />
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The women asked ISIS if that’s true, ISIS said no, we didn’t kill anyone we just took the men to another place. When they asked what were those gunshots they heard  ISIS said that was nothing, there were some bad dogs outside the village and we shot at the air to scare them.
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