Stitching Ezidis Charity Association - Nederlands Yazidis Foundation - Netherlands Genève 24/11/2015 Thank you Mr. President I am Hasso Hourmi, president of the Yazidis Foundation in the Netherlands. I am not here to represent anyone but to represent the major humanitarian issue concerning the adherents of an entire religion, which faces eradication. The whole world was a witness to the most repugnant crime committed against the adherents of the Yazidi religion at the hands of the terrorists of the Islamic Caliphate State (ISIS) on the 3rd of August 2014 in Sinjar, Bashiqa and Bahzani. It had significant disastrous results such as murder, captivity, expulsion and the forced displacements of thousands of families to the region of Iraqi Kurdistan, neighbouring countries and Europe. I have a documentary of director Nawzad Shekhany, which shows the details of the invasion and which was presented to the Forum. In terms of the documented numbers, according to the latest public statistics of the Department of Yazidi Affairs in the Kurdistan government. The total number of Yazidis in Iraq is: 550000 people Displaced: 400000 Refugees: 65000 Religious shrines bombed: 42 Discovered mass graves in Sinjar: 21 The number of orphans (960) as a result of the invasion Total number of abducted 5838 Total of abducted children 1527 female and male The statement sent to the forum by Mr. Khairy Bozani, director general at the Department of Yazidi Affairs and supervisor of the dossier of abducted girls and women accurately shows the numbers of human and material losses for the Yazidi. State of affairs: 1. The situation of the displaced in camps is very bad (Iraq, Syria and Turkey) with the spread of illnesses. 2. The flow of emigration is ongoing and children die on the road.