HRW slams Iraq failure to compensate Yazidis for lost homes

Baghdad (AFP) May 9, 2023

Human Rights Watch criticised Iraqi authorities Tuesday for failing to pay compensation to those who lost homes during the Islamic State group's brutal occupation of the Yazidi stronghold of Sinjar. The Yazidis, whose pre-Islamic religion earned them the hatred of the Muslim extremists of IS, were subjected to massacres, forced marriages and sex slavery during the jihadists' 2014-15 rule in