News Center- The Southern Kurdistan Women’s Front has released a written statement to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide committed by ISIS against the Yazidi community in Shengal (Sinjar) on August 3,2014.

Defining the genocide committed by ISIS against the Yazidi community in 2014 as “the 74th Yazidi genocide”, the Southern Kurdistan Women’s Front recalled that thousands of Yazidi women were killed and abducted by ISIS in 2014.

“Although the YPG and YPJ have rescued some of the Yazidi women and children abducted by ISIS, thousands of Yazidi women and children are still missing,” the statement said.

ISIS targeted the language, culture and life of the Yazidi people, the statement added, stressing that the plans of ISIS, supported by the Turkish state, were frustrated by the Kurds. “However, ISIS still poses a threat. Shengal must be rebuilt on the system of the autonomous administration and women should organize themselves stronger because the attacks against Yazidis continue. The missing Yazidi women and children must be rescued. A women’s council must be formed to make the voices of the missing Yazidi women and children all around the world.”