Lalish

Long after abuse, trauma remains

Edit Arkansas Online 28 Aug 2016

VILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN, Germany -- The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent ... So she doused herself in gasoline and lit a match ... Long after the women are rescued, the trauma remains ... It was on Aug ... Kizilhan and others then met with the head religious leader of the Yazidis, the Baba Sheikh, at the holy site of Lalish....

Raped and tortured by IS, Yazidi women recover in Germany

Edit Springfield News-Sun 24 Aug 2016

The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent. Petrified by the thought of again facing rape and abuse at their hands, 17-year-old Yasmin vowed to make herself undesirable ... Kizilhan and others then met with the head religious leader of the Yazidis, the Baba Sheikh, at the holy site of Lalish ... ....

After escaping ISIS, raped girl sets self on fire to be undesirable to fighters

Edit Toronto Sun 24 Aug 2016

VILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN, Germany -- The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent ... So she doused herself in gasoline and lit a match ... Long after the women are rescued, the trauma remains ... It was on Aug ... Kizilhan and others then met with the head religious leader of the Yazidis, the Baba Sheikh, at the holy site of Lalish....

Raped and tortured by Islamic State, Yazidi women recover in Germany

Edit Stars and Stripes 24 Aug 2016

VILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN, Germany — The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent ... So she doused herself in gasoline and lit a match ... Long after the women are rescued, the trauma remains ... It was on Aug ... Kizilhan and others then met with the head religious leader of the Yazidis, the Baba Sheikh, at the holy site of Lalish ... ....

Fearing ISIS would rape her again, Yazidi girl sets self on fire to be ‘undesirable’

Edit Deccan Chronicle 24 Aug 2016

The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent. Petrified by the thought of again facing rape and abuse at their hands, 17-year-old Yasmin vowed to make herself undesirable ... (Photo. AP) ... (Photo. AP) ... Kizilhan and others then met with the head religious leader of the Yazidis, the Baba Sheikh, at the holy site of Lalish ... ....

Yazidi sets herself on fire to avoid ISIS sex slavery

Edit New York Post 24 Aug 2016

VILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN, Germany — The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent ... So she doused herself in gasoline and lit a match ... Long after the women are rescued, the trauma remains ... AP ... AP ... Kizilhan and others then met with the head religious leader of the Yazidis, the Baba Sheikh, at the holy site of Lalish....

Yazidi teen burnt herself to become 'undesirable' fearing rape again by ISIS

Edit The Times of India 24 Aug 2016

VILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN (GERMANY). The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of BACKGROUNDX. Two years of anti-IS airstrikes have redrawn the Iraqi map ... (AP File Photo). MAKHMOUR, IRAQ ... Daesh is an Arabic acronym for IS ... RELATED STORIES ... MOSUL ... Kizilhan and others then met with the head religious leader of the Yazidis, the Baba Sheikh, at the holy site of Lalish....

Yazidis Mark Second Anniversary of Islamic State Massacre

Edit Voa News 03 Aug 2016

“I would like to express my gratitude to the coalition, which is led by the United States,” Hazim Tahsin, a Yazidi spiritual leader, told a gathering Wednesday at Lalish Temple in northern Iraq, the most sacred Yazidi site, to remember the genocide’s victims ... in Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, said during a speech at Lalish Temple....

From Iraq to Nebraska: A Yazidi journey of faith on Alhurra TV (BBG - Broadcasting Board of Governors)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Jul 2016

(Source. BBG - Broadcasting Board of Governors). Springfield, VA - Alhurra Television goes to the heartland to highlight the largest Yazidi population in the United States in the original documentary Yazidis. A Long Road to Healing ... They kept her and other Yazidi women as their sex slaves after raiding their homes in Sinjar. Yazidis ... MBN manages and oversees Alhurra Television ... Filmed in Lalish, Iraq, and Lincoln, Nebraska, Yazidis ... Yazidis....

Winnipeg Folk Festival unites bands from around the world

Edit Topix 08 Jul 2016

Dan Molad, Jess Wolfe, Holly Laessig Andrew Burri and Peter Lalish make up New York-based band, Lucius. The group is travelling to Winnipeg from Europe to perform at Folk Festival on Sunday ... ....

Review: Lucius on the brink of stardom

Edit Times Union 23 Jun 2016

Backed by the solid, versatile Dan Molad (drums), Peter Lalish (guitar, keyboards) and Andrew Burri (guitar, drums), Wolfe and Laessig drew equally from their two albums — 2013's "Wildewoman" and the new "Good Grief" — as they wove together an evening of folksy ballads ("Two of Us on the Road" with the vocalists sitting on the edge of the stage), ......

Armenia to have the world’s largest Yazidi temple

Edit The Hindu 23 Jun 2016

A huge Yazidi temple is under construction in a small Armenian village, intended as a symbol of resilience for a persecuted religious tradition ... m prayer hall ... The complex in Aknalich is not intended to overshadow Lalish, the most holy Yazidi temple, about 36 miles north of Mosul in northern Iraq ... ....

Yezidi Women: Surviving the Horror of Isis

Edit Huffington Post 23 Jun 2016

'When ISIS came they separated the men and the women. Then they killed the men. They separated the boys who were under 12 years old, the older women from the younger girls and the virgin girls. Everyone was put into stadiums and halls. Some of the ISIS commanders came and choose the girls they wanted ... Women were marketed with their names and pictures ... We travelled to Lalish, the spiritual centre for the Yazidi's to learn more ... ....

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