![]() They have compiled the names of more than 4,000 women, children and men who are missing, and as well as a detailed report seen by VICE News on the whereabouts of those held. In this vacuum, a group of Yazidi activists from the US, Europe and Iraq have been frantically working to track and document the missing and the dead. ![]() ![]() Hundreds of Yazidis have been killed, and reliable figures of the scale of the catastrophe are difficult to come by as no official body appears to be counting. A small number have fled through a variety of secretive networks operated by people risking their own lives to help. ![]() Adira, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, is one of a few Yazidi girls who - abandoned by the international community - have eventually managed to make their own escapes from the deadly clutches of their Islamic State rapists.Īlmost six months since the black flag of the jihadis descended across northern Iraq, thousands of Yazidis remain missing and in captivity. ![]()
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