Five years after the start of the genocide, little has changed for the Yazidi: due to political tensions, Sinjar is a now a abandoned area, IS members are not prosecuted for genocide and thousands of Yazidi are still missing. What is the future of a nation that has been struggling for centuries to survive?
Journalist Brenda Stoter Boscolo traveled to Iraq to write about the Yazidi. She soon discovered that the genocide is much more than the sex slavery on which the media mainly focused. In the refugee camps she researched the latest genocide, their history and culture and made close friendships. She followed the lives of Ismael, of whom thirty-five relatives were kidnapped, of Majdal, who was made a child soldier by IS, of Salem, who lost his entire family, and of Nadima, who became the mother of a child of an IS fighter... In a personal and penetrating way, she takes the reader into the world of victims who have all become the face of the genocide.
The book is written in Dutch. You can order it over here: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/het-vergeten-volk/
