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  • Madlan Dakhil Khalaf a 7 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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  • 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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  • Avin Ahmed Qassem a 9 year old Yazidi from Dougre, 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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  • Hazim Elias Khadeda a 22 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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  • 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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  • Sharifa Khedr Qassem a 27 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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  • Farhan Khadeda Khalaf a 24 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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  • Madina Haji Qassem, a 15 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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  • Elias Khadeda Ishmail a 54 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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  • 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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  • Madlen Dakhil Khalaf an 11 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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  • Gule Khalaf Jerdo a 41 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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  • Haifaa Koji Khedr a 28 year old Yazidi from Rambusi, 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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  • Shahed Elias Khadeda a 16 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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  • Gule Khudida Khalaf a 30 year old Yazidi from Dougre, 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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  • Qawal Kheder Saydo a 30 year old Yazidi from Rambusi, 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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  • Berivam Hasn Abas a 3 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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  • Myan Shamo Hasan a 43 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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  • Dalal Ali Mesho a 21 year old from Siba Sheikh Khidir, northern Iraq.<br />
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She is in Greece with her husband and her two children. From Her village 150 people are missing.<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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  • 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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  • When we were hiding in the mountain some people in the group had mobile phones with them and they got news . Bad news, they learned that ISIS has surrounded the mountain and we were scared that they will find our place. <br />
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We were very tired, we were hungry and thirsty. <br />
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I cannot forget those moments in my life. All the Yazidis were walking and walking and praying for our lives because we thought that all of us we will die.
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  • My house was there. Now it’s an ISIS prison. <br />
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Only Yazidis were living in my village except one house with Muslims.<br />
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This Muslim family came to our village 30 years ago, they had some problems in their village so they  moved to ours for shelter and we accepted them. <br />
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When ISIS came to our area this same Muslim family bombed a lorry full of Yazidis on the 14th of August 2014.
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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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  • When we left our home we thought that we are just going to the nearby village for 2-3 hours and then we will be back. So we didn’t take anything with us, no clothes, no luggage, no food, nothing.  Some people didn’t even take their ID’s or passports. My father didn’t take his either. <br />
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And we never returned back. Never. <br />
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Our village is still under ISIS 2 years after that date.
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  • I understood what was happening, but I don’t know why everything happened and why people were so bad. I was very afraid, not just afraid but I though I will die.
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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 liked my house, my favourite toy was a doll dressed as a bride, but I didn’t take it with me because we were hiding in a room and I couldn’t go outside and take it. <br />
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My mother said that we are going away for few hours and then we will come back so I didn’t worry about my doll. I didn’t take anything with me. Now 2 years later I miss my doll.
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  • My sister and her children was captured by ISIS and taken by one of them to a Syrian town. She was abused for weeks but one day she managed to escaped from the back window of the house. She was lucky, because she found some Muslim clothes in the house and nobody could recognise her or her daughters.<br />
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She was going around the village and asking people for help but nobody took her in their house. Everyone in the village was Muslim but not everyone was with ISIS. They were good people also. It was winter and raining. She knocked on many people’s doors but no one opened her and nobody helped her, nobody accept her.
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  • On the 3rd of August 2014 at 2:30 at night I was chatting with a friend on Facebook. At some point he warned me that ISIS is heading towards my village. I replied that there is nothing to fear about, we are in our village, we are peaceful, we have no weapons. I thought that they will not harm us. <br />
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Half an hour later I’ve heard the first gun shot. Most of my family were sleeping on the roof because it was a hot night. When I heard more gunshots I closed my laptop and I went upstairs to inform my father. <br />
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That was at 3 o’clock. We waited for few hours and at 7 in the morning we left our village.
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  • When we arrived in Lesbos in Greece we thought that we will be safe, but they put us in a camp together with many Muslim man. Some of them looked like ISIS with long beards, some were Afghan, some Pakistani and there were some Arabs too. We were scared and we said to the police that they should put us in a separate place. <br />
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In Leros the Afghans and Pakistanis attacked us few times, and sometimes after their Friday prayers they were making gestures like they wanted to behead 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Yazidi refugees Hazim Elias Khadeda 22  and his sister Leena Elias Khadeda  16 photographed in front of the abandoned building of the Royal Technical School of Leros.<br />
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This building was built in the 1930 by Fascist Italy as barack for the submarine crews stationed in the island. After WWII it  was turned into a a reeducation camp for the children of Greek Communists and into a technical school. From the mid 1950’s until 1967 it was a technical school with boarding facilities. During the Colonel’s Junta in Greece it was turned into a camp for members of the communist party. After the Junta it was abandoned and now it’s about to collapse.
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  • Yazidi refugees Hazim Elias Khadeda 22  and his sister Leena Elias Khadeda  16 photographed in front of the abandoned building of the Royal Technical School of Leros.<br />
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This building was built in the 1930 by Fascist Italy as barack for the submarine crews stationed in the island. After WWII it  was turned into a a reeducation camp for the children of Greek Communists and into a technical school. From the mid 1950’s until 1967 it was a technical school with boarding facilities. During the Colonel’s Junta in Greece it was turned into a camp for members of the communist party. After the Junta it was abandoned and now it’s about to collapse.
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  • 14 month old Yazidi girl Asma Aisam Ismail outside the abandoned Lepida psychiatric hospital in whose grounds the Leros ‘Hot spot’ (an EU-run migrant’s reception centre) has been built. Her mother, Torko Haji Khalaf, 21, picks figs in the background. <br />
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Originally constructed, in 1930 by fascist Italy, as barracks for Italian soldiers serving in the aeronautical base of Portolago, it was then, for a short period after WWII, a re-education camp for the children of Greek Communists. In 1958, it was converted into the biggest psychiatric hospital in the country. The conditions for the patients were horrific and it was shut down in the late 1980s and the patients moved into smaller buildings in the grounds and elsewhere on the island.
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  • Yazidi Hazim Elias Khadeda, 22, looking at the Leros 'Hotspot', an EU-run migrant's reception centre opened in the grounds of the former Lepida psychiatric hospital (from which the view is taken).<br />
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The Hot Spot in Lepida opened on the 26th of February 2016 in the grounds of the former Lepida psychiatric hospital.  At the beginning it served as a registration camp for refugees and migrants who were travelling to Europe through Greece but since the closure of the borders in March 2016 it serves as a permanent camp. People are allowed to go out, they have three meals a day, the prefabricated huts have a bathroom and are air-conditioned and compering to other refugee camps in Greece the conditions are bearable.
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  • Yazidi refugees Hazim Elias Khadeda, 22, and his sister Leena Elias Khadeda, 16, sit among the pines beside the sea at Lakki.
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