2. Clear out Mosul and the Nineveh Plains, Sinjar and the rest of the Iraqi areas under the conquest of ISIS and ease the return of Christians, Yazidis and others to their homes. 3. Provide international protection in the Nineveh Plain and Sinjar for a period of not less than 10 years, in which members of minority groups can be included as to protect themselves and their areas within all kinds of Iraqi security services. All [shall] be trained and armed for self-defense and the lost confidence in these forces [shall] be restored. 4. Compensate the victims favorably for all the harm that befell them. This can be made possible by the very rich Iraqi state and also by the international community, which to this moment has not performed its duty on the level of responsibility towards the wounded Iraqis from the ravages. [The latter] are innocent, especially the minorities, and in particular non-Muslim minorities like Christians and Yazidis, since they were unarmed and peaceful. 5. The area of the Nineveh plains [shall] become an internationally and Iraqi protected area with the participation of international forces to protect minorities, not only now from the evils of ISIS, but also from the reckless actions of those in charge of the security forces, which withdrew [from the area], whether this is the army in Mosul or the Kurdish militants in the Nineveh Plains. They have demonstrated a lack of national spirit and responsibility, as well as the weakness of the professionalism of these security forces. Emphasize the importance of governance in accordance with the rights’ section of the Iraqi constitution. It is up to the United Nations to support the Iraqi minorities such as Christians and Yazidis in achieving safety in their historical areas with their effective involvement with international and local forces to make the area from the Nineveh Plains to Sinjar an autonomous region or a new province, according to available constitutional possibilities in the new constitution. This will support the security and economic strategies more adequately, as the annual budgets in regards to these regions will be spent on building stability in the region, ending discrimination and liberating enslaved Yazidi and Christian women. Inquiry by Pascale Warda with one of the Yezidi survivors, survivor of enslavement.

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