Feuer in Jesiden Camp im Irak

Und wieder hat es einem der Flüchtlingslager für Jesiden im Nordirak gebrannt, in denen bald zehn Jahre nach dem Genozid durch den Islamischen Staat, weiter Hunderttausende ausharren müssen. Sicher der Brand war nicht so dramatisch, wie erst jüngst der in einem Lager in Bangladesch, wo gleich 7000 Rohingyas obdachlos machte, die dort Teil jener einer Million Flüchtlinge sind, die von der Welt vergessen seit 2017 in völlig überfüllten Lagern vor sich hin vegetieren, aber trotzdem: Auch im Irak brennt es immer wieder mit den entsprechen katastrophalen Folgen:

A fire swept through a camp in Duhok province housing displaced Yazidis on Tuesday, burning five caravans. No casualties were reported. (...)

Fires are a common occurrence in the Kurdistan Region’s displacement camps.

A fire engulfed a camp in Duhok province’s Dawdia camp housing internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Shingal in July, burning at least 17 caravans without resulting in any casualties. 

There are 16 camps in Duhok housing Shingal IDPs. 

Am selben Tag wurden weitere Opfer des IS exhumiert, um sie im Sinjar zur letzten Ruhe zu betten:

Tens of graves were dug outside the village of Hardan in the Yazidi heartland of Shingal (Sinjar) on Tuesday for the reburial of Yazidis killed by the Islamic State (ISIS) whose dead bodies were identified in Baghdad a year after they were uncovered. 

The identified remains, which were discovered across several mass graves, numbered 57 and are scheduled to be reburied in a special ceremony later in January. 

Hardan village is located on the main road from Shingal and Tal Afar into Syria in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province. It was the site of heinous Islamic State (ISIS) crimes on the Yazidi ethnoreligious community in 2014, with many residents killed. 

The remains whose identities were revealed were all males aged between 18 and 80 years old, according to Rudaw’s Adla Abubakir reporting from the site of the newly-dug graves. 

More than half of the 366 people from Hardan village who had been captured by ISIS were rescued and 132 remain unaccounted for, according to data obtained by Rudaw from local Shingal authorities.