Foreign Affairs committee  In the Kurdistan region, as Ms. Saeed and I mentioned, there are some minorities like the Christians. The Catholic Church will provide them with a lot of aid. They have a backup, but in the Yazidis case, nobody is going to back us up unless some countries like Canada or the Unite

Foreign Affairs committee  It is indeed. In fact, when you have a government like Iraq dealing with a lot of problems and issues, you have to take baby steps, go step-by-step to have that kind of federal system applied. Also, on war crimes, the U.S. can go back to its records and investigate that, go back

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, for long-term goals there is an alternative. In fact, the only option we have, which is going to be the best option, is bringing these sides together under the United Nations' supervision and having them work together. They may not agree. This is only an opinion, my opinion:

Foreign Affairs committee  It started almost 1,100 years ago after the existence of Islam and spreading the word of Islam. It started with the Mongols, then the Persians, then the Turks, and today it is happening by both Kurds and Arabs.

Foreign Affairs committee  If you go back to the years before Saddam Hussein, to Salam Arif and his brother, Abdul Rahman Arif, one of the requests of Mustafa Barzani was religious unification in Iraq, that there should be all Muslims and nobody else. I think you heard of that right back to the fifties o

Foreign Affairs committee  With the situation and what's going on it's difficult. It cannot be real. It's just pretty much a myth unless they acknowledge us and our existence. If Kurds are going to claim us as part of their society, then why are they sending their peshmerga and their fighters to Kobani if

Foreign Affairs committee  It's pretty much land and politics.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's what it is.

Foreign Affairs committee  Sir, first of all we are not Kurds, as Ms. Saeed claimed that we are. After the genocide it is hard to trust the Kurds and live with them, especially after what we've seen. As my colleague mentioned, we've seen the Kurds in Sinjar have guarded ISIS and led them to the houses tha

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know why. I asked that question to the very same person who took them away. Number three is leaving those people and not telling them. At least tell them the danger is coming. When you have three coincidences in a row, then there is something obvious that it's telling u

Foreign Affairs committee  In fact, as Yazidis, we've never looked for or sought our own territory. We want to be looked at as Iraqis only because we coexist in peace with every religion or nation around us. When there is any catastrophe happening to any tribe—not even a religious minority or anybody—we

Foreign Affairs committee  That mountain means a lot to us, just as Ms. Saeed said, because of the history that our ancestors built in it, not to mention the religious sites. There are 20 to 30 holy shrines in the mountain. The term Yazidi means “who gave me this life, who created me”. We are attached to t

Foreign Affairs committee  When there is a coincidence, it might be once or twice, but not three or four times in a row. People went to the Kurdish authorities in the Sinjar area and asked if they needed any help or support. People were going to get recruited. They said, “No, no, go home. We have plenty. W

Foreign Affairs committee  It is indeed, without discrimination.

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me go back to my first statement and ask: who let ISIS in, but the Kurds? It's the same thing. Would the trust have been lost since the second round happened? That's my personal belief. As well, Yazidis believe in general that we can't trust them ever again. There was a route