Yazidis renassainse

Is it possible to get out of the shadows of one's own destiny? This is a rare opportunity amidst a conflict, when commonly victims and survivors have their voices overlain by the warlords' speeches. From all sides. We have all seen violence, but we have not seen enough of its impact on the civilian life of an ethnic and religious minority and at the same time represents a major impact on the public. "The life was very different from what it is now. We had a very simple life and the green fields of Mount Sinjar. I did not need to work, besides taking care of the family. My husband was a peshmerga soldier and that was enough to have a comfortable and peaceful life. This is until 03 August 2014, "describes Turkia Hussein, 25, a mother of two. She reports the dawn of that day when militants of the ISIS (Daesh, in Arabic), the self-proclaimed army of God and self-denominated as an Islamic state arrived in Sinjar, a city in the northern province of Iraq known as Nineva . From that day on, everything would change for the Yazidis, an ethnic group with no territory of their own that beyond northern Iraq also inhabits parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran and Armenia.