Êzidi MP Viyan Daxil urges UN for help against ISIS
NEWS CENTER (DİHA) - Viyan Daxil, an Kurdish Êzidi politician, has urged the UN Security Council to better help Kurdish officials and others protect minority religious groups and tackle ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria.
“We are slaughtered, we are killed, our women are being raped, our girls are being sold, our children are taken to places … we are bought and sold like goods in the market,” Daxil, an Iraqi parliamentarian, told the UN’s top body on Friday. “I also convey to you the greetings and position of the government and the people of Kurdistan region in Iraq in favour of any resolution that helps them serve the purpose of the Iraqi people,” she told the UN’s top body, during a debate on protecting minorities from ISIS.
The politician has pledged to continue her campaign to save the Êzidi people who are trapped by ISIS gangs. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, from the Chaldean religious minority, which has also suffered at the hands of ISIS, called on world powers to ensure that displaced groups would eventually be entitled to return to their homes.
The UN should support “Kurdistan towards the liberation of all cities and for us Christians, Êzidis and Shabaks … providing an international protection for their inhabitants who were forced to be displaced from their homes, and promulgating a real estate and property law that ensure their rights in their lands,” he said.
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