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YEZIDIS PLANNING TO SEIZE BACK SINJAR FROM ISIL - YEZIDI-ARMENIAN ACTIVIST
15:23 * 30.10.14
The president of a Yerevan-based Yezidi NGO said Thursday that their
armed detachments in Iraq have plans to seize back the town of Sinjar
from ISIL militants in the near future.
"We have detachments there, so we are now planning to take back
Shangal's center, Sinjar. Troops from the Kurdistan Autonomous
Republic will help us in the operations; [we'll receive backing]
from the Iraqi troops in the south while the Yezidis are entering
the city from the front," Amo Sharoyan told reporters on Thursday.
He said a delegation of Yezidis, which recently visited the United
States, agreed with Department of State Officials over a plan for
the delivery of military and humanitarian aid.
The activist said he regrets that the issue is no longer under
media spotlight, with the entire attention now being focused on the
developments in Kobane.
Speaking further, Shangal newspaper's editor, Gurjis Kochoyan, blamed
Turkey for the continuing genocidal policies against the Iraqi Yezidis.
"Sunnis are the main nucleus of the Islamic State, so Turkey, which
100 years ago did the same with the Armenians, is the chief culprit
of the Yezidi genocide," he noted.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian
15:23 * 30.10.14
The president of a Yerevan-based Yezidi NGO said Thursday that their
armed detachments in Iraq have plans to seize back the town of Sinjar
from ISIL militants in the near future.
"We have detachments there, so we are now planning to take back
Shangal's center, Sinjar. Troops from the Kurdistan Autonomous
Republic will help us in the operations; [we'll receive backing]
from the Iraqi troops in the south while the Yezidis are entering
the city from the front," Amo Sharoyan told reporters on Thursday.
He said a delegation of Yezidis, which recently visited the United
States, agreed with Department of State Officials over a plan for
the delivery of military and humanitarian aid.
The activist said he regrets that the issue is no longer under
media spotlight, with the entire attention now being focused on the
developments in Kobane.
Speaking further, Shangal newspaper's editor, Gurjis Kochoyan, blamed
Turkey for the continuing genocidal policies against the Iraqi Yezidis.
"Sunnis are the main nucleus of the Islamic State, so Turkey, which
100 years ago did the same with the Armenians, is the chief culprit
of the Yezidi genocide," he noted.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian