Thank you Madam President…..
Erivan Mahdi from Iraq speaking to you.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am a Yazidi girl coming to you from among slaves and survivors of Sinjar, and our
killed, whose bodies fill the land of Sinjar with mass graves, and from among the sons of my skin, whose souls
in Iraq are not less than 600,000 people, of which 400,000 have been living in tents unfit for living for the past
15 months. Nearly 3500 females and 2500 males fell into the hands of ISIS, of which 1600 children are being
trained in ISIS camps to be time bombs and suicide bombers today and in the future. Despite everything that
happened, there hasn’t been any intervention from any security parties, the courts had no role in persecuting
the offenders and deliver them to the criminal courts…
I am talking to you about the fate of the sons of my religion, who faced 74 campaigns of genocide for no
other reason than being Yazidis. Will this extermination be the last one?
It is impossible for us to live without adequate guarantee for our protection amid their aims to annihilate us,
therefore we strongly and earnestly demand from you the following:
1. Insure the international protection of Sinjar and the regions of the Nineveh Plains, where Yazidis and
other minorities live. Facilitate the emigration and asylum process for Yazidis abroad.
2. Consider what happened to us on August 3rd, 2014 a crime of genocide, we demand that the
International Security Council hand over the file of the Yazidi’s genocide to the International Criminal
Court and pressure the Iraqi government to join the International Criminal Court to facilitate the approval
of it being genocide.
3. Hold the negligent and perpetrators of the events in Sinjar accountable and deliver them to criminal
justice.
4. Commission an international team specialised in mass graves to Sinjar for the preservation of the mass
graves as the most significant legal evidence to prove genocide.
5. Liberate abducted Yazidis from the grasps of ISIS.
6. Support for the survivors and their rehabilitation, and the renewal of programs to receive them in Europe.
7. Demand from the Iraqi Parliament to refrain from enacting unjust laws against Minorities as for example
the law of the National Identity Card, Article 26, second paragraph, which states that a minor becomes
Muslim, if one of the parents converts to Islam. This a form of how ISIS behaves towards the minorities,
if it is not addressed.
The blood of the Yazidis is on your hands.
Sincerely…