The Diplomacy Committee of the Yazidi Women’s Freedom Movement (TAJE) was formed on the 11th anniversary of the August 3, 2014 order against the Yazidi community in Shengal by ISIS gangs. Letters were sent to 19 countries to recognize the genocide against the Yazidi community and to bring the perpetrators to justice.
11 years have passed since the genocide of August 03, 2014 that ISIS perpetuated on the Yazidi population. As far as the world is concerned, the Yazidi population has passed through 74 genocides. During the last genocide of August 03,2014, thousands of Yazidis were killed, captured, forced to migrate and flee their land. Women and children were the main victims of this 74th genocide. Yazidi women were captured, sold, raped, tortured and murdered. Hundreds of children and the elderly died of hunger and thirst.
11 years have passed since the genocide of 03 August 2014 but to this day the pain, sorrow and wounds of the genocide have not healed and the tragedy of the genocide has not passed. To date, 2,900 Yazidi are still in the hands of ISIS, the majority of them are women and children. The situation of hundreds of others is unknown. To date, dozens of mass graves have not been excavated, and new ones are regularly being discovered.
Over the past 11 years, 14 countries have officially announced the massacre of 03 August 2014 as a genocide and agreed to define and denounce the acts of ISIS on Yazidi society as crimes of genocide.
As the Yazidi Women’s Freedom Movement we have prepared for you an open dossier on the genocide of 03 August 2014. We are sending you this dossier containing evidence and important facts and information that prove that the Yazidi population passed through terrible genocide on the day of 03 August 2014 and the months that followed. We expect you to take responsibility for this massacre and officially proclaim it as genocide.
As Yazidi women, we are taking action to prevent any attacks on women and on our people. After the 2014 genocide, in 2015, first as a group of women, then as a large assembly we organized ourselves. In order for women that are sources of strength, for women to be capable of self-defense in the face of every attack, we have enlarged, broadened and strengthened our work. Women’s organization is not only important for us, it is also an answer against the genocide imposed on our people. In 2016 at a congress the Yazidi Women’s Freedom Movement (TAJÊ) was created. To this day we continue our organizational work as Yazidi Women in Sinjar.
The names of the countries to which the letter was sent are as follows:
President of South Africa
Italian State Ceremonial Protocol
Office of the President and General Diplomatic Relations of Bulgaria
Office of the President of the Slovak Republic
President of Slovenia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France
President of the Republic of Finland
President of Cyprus
President of the Republic of Croatia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malta
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary
President of Austria
For the President of Greece
President of the Government of Spain
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China
President of the Republic of Lithuania
Office of the President of India
President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
