genocide in Sanjar against kurdish Yazidi. Islamic barbaric terror organization Isil has made genocide against the Kurdish Yazidi, Islamic terrorists killed more than 600 people in a village outside Sanjar

genocide in Sanjar against kurdish Yazidi. 

  Islamic barbaric terror organization Isil has made genocide against the Kurdish Yazidi, Islamic terrorists killed more than 600 people in a village outside Sanjar

Survivors: 600 people massacred in Kocho village.

ANF - SINJAR

First, they tried to force us to become Muslim. We refused. They later gave us until Sunday. Then they gathered all the villagers in the village school. They took our money, phones, jewelry on women and everything else. They forced men into cars and massacred them outside the village. We do not know what they did to our women and children...”

That's what is told by three survivors of the savagery perpetrated by the jihadist Islamic state in the village of Kocho, in the region of Sinjar taken on August 3. The jihadist invasion forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee this barbarity. The rapid response of the Syrian Kurdish fighters and those of the Kurdistan Workers Party avoided further bloodshed in the mountains that are now under the control of Kurdish forces.

Yet another massacre was committed on August 15 in the Kocho village which had been besieged by jihadists since August 6. According to the first information gathered about the massacre, at least 80 people were killed in the village. But according to three villagers who were able to survive the massacre, nearly 600 men were summarily executed only in the village of Kocho. The extent of the massacres in the entire region remains unclear.

Survivors of the horrific massacre committed by ISIS gangs in the Kocho village spoke to ANF.

Xelef Xwedêda: "It has been 12 days since ISIS entered our village. They first asked us to become Muslim, saying that will not harm the people. Our sheikh and village headmen said “We are Yezidis and won't convert into Islam”. Then they gave us time till Sunday after which gangs came back, and told us they would enable us to leave the village, and that they won't do anything to us. Aug. 15, at noon, they came back and surrounded the village, accompanied by 10-12 vehicles all of which were carrying antiaircraft weapons.”

According to the villagers, only four people who remained trapped under the bodies of the people massacred by gangs could survive the massacre. The bodies of the victims were thrown into pits gangs had dug earlier. The aftermath of the women and children in the village is not known yet.

“After gathering every single person in the village school, they asked us again to become a Muslim. We refused again. They therewith put every 15 of us into a car and took us away, on the pretext of leading us out of the village. There they lined us up and shot at us all”, Xelef Xwedêda said and continued as follows;

“A villager slumped down on me as gangs shot the people in the line where I was standing. Two bullets hit me on the back and foot but I didn't make a sound or move despite the pain I started to suffer. Gangs later shot once more on all the bodies lying on the ground, and killing those who were still alive. They left the place after staying there for around an hour. After making sure they had left, I tried to stand up and run. I hid myself behind the bushes near the village. After a while, a group of theirs came back to the scene of the massacre. They once again raided bullets on the dead bodies lying there. Half an hour later, they brought a bulldozer which dug a pit where the bodies of all those massacred were put all together. There were some 600 men in the village, who were all massacred. After hiding myself in the bushes until it got dark, I fled to the mountains of Sinjar. I however do not know about the fate of the women and children in the village. They may have been killed in the school. "

Ilyas Salih Qasim (Doctor of the village): When ISIS gangs first came to our village, their leader, called Ebu Hamza, told them to collect all the arms we had, and they did so. When they came back the day later, they gave us time till Sunday, and told the same things to the people in the Hatimiyê village where people however fled their homes and saved themselves. Therewith, the gangs all came to our village and set up bases at three separate points.

On August 15, at 11 am, they came back in vehicles carrying antiaircraft weapons, and surrounded our village. They gathered all the residents of the village in the school. There were 250 houses in the village and they gathered over 500 people in the school.

I was among the first fifteen people who were forced into cars and taken to the area of Abbas Qasim steps 1 km south of the town. There was a water pool there. In the meantime, a member of the gangs was taking photos with his phone. Then they started to rain bullets on us, shooting anyone again and again if he happened to make a move. I was hit by a bullet on the foot while another passed right next to my head, but I never moved.

There was a silence after ten minutes. When I saw them leave, I ran with all my strength. I started to lie down when I reached a truck farm. Three other people who survived there in the same way joined me here later. Then we started to move towards the Arab village Biskê Cinubî, fearing that they might be able to find us there. We wanted to stay in the village until it got dark but the inhabitants refused to welcome us for fear of a reprisal by jihadists. Therewith we had to leave the village and hid ourselves somewhere else till the evening when we again took our way and passed through Til Qeseb, Sinjar and Hemdan. One day later we arrived at the Deriyê Mihrikan pass in Sinjar mountains. They also massacred the people of Til Qeseb village in the same way they did to us. These gangs have no conscience or morality. They even killed a 85-year-old man standing next to me.”

Xidir Hesen Ehmed: “They forced all of us into cars and took out of the village where they rained bullets on us. Only a few men, including me, who remained trapped under dead bodies could survive the massacre. Then we managed to flee and reach here (Sinjar Mountain). There were around 200-300 women and children in the school.”