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Suicide rates increase within Iraq’s Yazidi community

The number of suicides among Iraqi Yazidis have been increasing recently, while they receive little support from local and international organizations in this regard.

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Displaced Iraqi women from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the Iraqi town of Sinjar, walk at Khanki camp on the outskirts of Dahuk province, Iraq, July 31, 2019. — REUTERS/Ari Jalal

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