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Iraq
Yazidis Burn Muslim Homes in Iraq's Sinjar
2015-11-16
[AnNahar] Members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, which was brutally attacked by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group, looted and burned Muslim homes in Sinjar after its recapture from the jihadists, witnesses said Sunday.

IS overran the northern town last year, targeting Yazidis -- whose faith it considers heretical -- in a campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape that the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
 has described as a possible genocide.

Yazidis fleeing the IS onslaught in August 2014 told AFP that some of their Muslim neighbors enabled the attacks, identifying them for the jihadists.
Rudaw reported that they not only pointed out the Yezidis, but participated in what followed.
Sinjar was recaptured from IS on Friday in a major operation led by forces from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region and backed by U.S.-led air strikes.

"Muslim houses were looted and burned," especially those that had "Sunni" written on them after IS seized the town, said one witness, who declined to be named.

An AFP journalist saw houses in Sinjar that had been marked "Sunni", possibly as a means for IS to identify which homes should be protected.

"I saw one of the mosques burned at the hands of Yazidis," the witness said.

A second witness, who also asked not to be identified by name, also reported seeing Yazidis looting Muslim homes and setting them alight.

Kurdish security commanders denied that burning and looting was taking place, and accounts of the unrest could not be independently confirmed.

Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International documented attacks by Yazidi Death Eaters against two Sunni Arab villages north of Sinjar in January, in which 21 people were killed and numerous houses burned.

Looting and burning has followed the recapture of other areas in Iraq from IS, sparking resentment among residents and posing a threat to long-term stability.
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