ICC Note

The UN declared that ISIS was conducting a genocidal campaign against the Yazidis, an ethnic and religious minority, in Iraq. Thousands of Yazidis have been killed, kidnapped, displaced, and sold into slavery. One man, Dr. Mirza, has been working tirelessly to free Yazidis and help them escape from Iraq. Reports suggest that Dr. Mirza has been able to “track down, vet, and transport more than 1,000 survivors of ISIS captivity.”  

2017-05-15 Iraq (The Daily Beast) – Thousands more people are fleeing Mosul every day since Iraqi troops began their push into the last Islamic State-held areas of the city last week, with food and water running out and the fighting killing increasing numbers of civilians.

More than 22,000 people have fled Mosul since the U.S.-backed forces opened a new front in the northwest of the city on May 4 to try to finally dislodge the militants, the United Nations said on Wednesday, citing Iraqi government figures.

In the past two days alone, more than 11,000 people have passed through a screening site at the Hammam al-Alil camp south of Mosul.

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