They do not recognize children born of Isis violations

The Spiritual Council, the supreme body of the Yazidi faith, has explicitly refused to accept the children of women kidnapped and raped by the Islamic State militias and contradicts the earlier statements of the Yazidi religious leaders who had announced that they would accept "everything". the survivors.

"On the decision to accept all survivors and their children, we did not mention children born as a result of rape, but those born to Yazidi parents and kidnapped during the invasion of Sinyar by the Islamic State on August 3, 2014, "says the Council in a statement collected by Kurdish-Iraqi television Rudaw.

Hazim Tahsin Saadi, the "number two" of the Council, spoke Wednesday "the return of all survivors of the Islamic State to consider that everything that happened to them is foreign to their will" and their acceptance by the community.

Yazidi religion rejects marriage between Yazidis and non-Yazidis and does not accept conversion. Saadi's statements therefore seemed to include an exception for the children of the hostages.

However, part of the Yazidi religion has expressed opposition to the measure, including Yazidi political parties, and recalled that Iraqi legislation clearly states that the son of a Muslim will be considered a Muslim.

However, the organization of human rights Yazid Yazid, Yazda, warned of the "catastrophic consequences" of this exclusion. "Children are children and should never be treated as criminals, regardless of their biological parents," said group spokesman Murad Ismael.

Thousands of Yazidi men, women and elders were mbadacred by jihadists and buried in mbad graves in 2014. Survivors and their children were abducted and sold as slaves and raped for years by fighters of the Islamic State.

According to estimates by the Yazidi Affairs Office of the Government of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, of the 6,417 Yazidis abducted, 2,992 are still unknown.

Yazidism is a pre-Islamic religion of the Middle East, whose main holy city is Lalish, in the province of Nineveh, Mosul, Iraq.

The Yazidis are a pre-Islamic minority whose roots go back to 2000 BC. Until the seventh century AD it was the official religion of the Kurds, but then the compulsory Islamization reduced the number. However, most of them are of Kurdish origin and live mostly near Mosul, with small communities in Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Syria and Turkey. In total, there are about 800,000 faithful, although this estimate is not very precise because of the secrecy surrounding the confessions concerning the recognition of the creed itself (protection mechanism against persecution of Islamists). Since the twentieth century, Yazidi refugees have lived in Europe (especially in Germany) and in North America.

Terrible rumor

The head of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may try to return to Syria after the defeats suffered by his acolytes in recent months, according to Iraqi secret service sources.

"Al Baghdadi has been trying to enter Iraq for weeks, but he did not realize it thanks to the strict security measures applied at the Syrian-Iraqi border," the source told Russia Today TV. .

According to this source, Al Baghdadi would hide in the Syrian city of Palmyra protected by his militiamen, Saudi, Tunisian and Iraqi for the most The last redoubts controlled by the jihadists, Al Baghdadi have decided to return to Iraq.