RA National Assembly President Ararat Mirzoyan noted that on 3 August, the Armenian people, together with Armenia’s Yazidi community, commemorate the memory of the Yazidis killed by terrorists in northern Iraq 6 years ago. Mirzoyan wrote this on his Facebook page.
“Today, together with Armenia’s Yazidi community, we commemorate the memory of their brothers and sisters who fell in Sinjar 6 years ago. As a nation that has survived genocide, we cannot remain indifferent while witnessing the same crime committed against any other people,” wrote Mirzoyan.
In early August 2014, armed Islamist forces captured the city of Sinjar in northern Iraq, which was inhabited by Yazidis. According to a statement by Iraq’s Minister of Human Rights, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, at least 500 Yazidis had been killed by terrorists as of 10 August. On 15 August, Islamist terrorists killed 80 men in the small Yazidi village of Kojo and took 100 children and women captive.
