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The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic States Genocide of the Yezidis.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmidinger, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:German
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2022.
Subjects:
IS (Organization)
Yezidis > Crimes against > Iraq > Kurdistān.
Genocide > Iraq > Kurdistān > History > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface to the English edition
  • Timeline
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Part I: History of Sinjar and the Genocide
  • 1. The Sinjar Mountains as a natural space
  • 2. Sinjar in ancient times
  • 3. From the Islamic conquest to the periphery of the Ottoman Empire
  • 4. The religion of the Ezidi
  • 5. Social order and religious office-holders of the Ezidi
  • 6. The tribal society in Sinjar
  • 7. Sinjar in the late Ottoman Empire
  • 8. The British occupation and protectorate
  • 9. The Ezidi in Iraq
  • 10. Resentments against the Ezidi
  • 11. Ethno-confessional groups in the Sinjar region
  • 12. Sinjar under the rule of the Ba'th Party
  • 13. After the fall of Saddam Hussein
  • 14. The massacre of 14 August 2007
  • 15. Encircled by jihadists
  • 16. The IS genocide in August 2014
  • 17. Genocide
  • 18. The reintroduction of slavery and sexual violence
  • 19. Struggle for liberation
  • 20. The life of the displaced
  • 21. Regional conflicts
  • 22. Marginalised and instrumentalised
  • Part II: Photographs
  • Part III: Interviews
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index