Today 2,000 Yazidi women and children are still in captivity, including my sister-in-law, my niece and my nephew. We have more than 85 mass graves in Sinjar right now. ISIS left behind a community that will not recover without the support of the International community.
Nadia Murad,

Winter on Mount Sinjar
northern Iraq, 2014
that year lasted forever:
such a long, long time,

On the killing fields
our mouths expelled
our hidden heat
the soul of the Êzidî.

Never before has the sun
filled us so full of tears,
though we have been persecuted
since the killing-wind of Islam arrived
74 attempted genocides 
throughout our tormented history
daesh wish to eradicate our faith
and culture.

They arrived in the night
raped our daughters, killed our sons,
these Salafist-devils were having fun
as we dug our own graves.

Now we sing for all the dead
for all those whom we loved and lost
at such a heart-wrenching cost.

Why DO the wicked prosper?
Why is all we build reduced to rubble?
On the Nineveh plain
Nothing can ever, be the same, again.