Iraq mourns the first set of remains of Yazidi genocide victims - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Yazidi Ashwaq Haji (1st-L), used by the Islamic State group (IS) as a sex slave, stands for a photograph in tribute to Yazidi victims from her village of Kocho near Sinjar along with their relatives, as she visits the Lalish temple in Lalish, northern Iraq, on Aug. 15, 2018.

Staff at Iraqi forensics lab Medico-Legal Directorate in eastern Baghdad inspect samples on June 19, 2019. - The bones, recently exhumed from mass graves in the Yazidi stronghold of Sinjar in northwest Iraq, will be compared with blood samples from surviving members of the community to help determine the fates of those still missing after the Islamic State group's 2014 sweep across their villages. Entire families were massacred, boys recruited to fight and women and girls forced into "sex slavery" in what t

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An Iraqi police officer looks at a Yazidi mass grave site near Sinjar, Iraq February 4, 2019. Picture taken February 4, 2019. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily - RC1AB34C8D60

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