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The persecution of Yazidis by Kurds describes the atrocities and massacres of the Yazidis committed by Kurds. Sometimes, during these massacres, the Kurds tried to force them to convert to Islam. Almost the whole Yazidi population were nearly wiped out by massacres carried out by Kurds.

History

Some massacres of the Yazidis committed by Kurds:

• In 980-981, the Kurds surrounded the Yazidis in the Hakkari region and killed most of them. Some Yazidis were captured and forced to Islam.
• In 1414, the Kurds killed the Yazidis in the mountains of Hakkari. Then the Kurds destroyed the holy temple Lalish of the Yazidis and desecrated the tomb of Sheikh Adi. Later, the Yazidis rebuilt their temple and the tomb of Sheikh Adi.
• In 1585, the Kurds attacked the Yazidis in the Sinjar Mountains. On the order of their Kurdish leader Ali Saidi Beg from Bohtan, they killed over 600 Yazidis in Sinjar. Many Yazidi women and girls were raped by them. After that, they also sold many Yazidi women and girls.
• In 1832, the Kurdish emir Mohammed Pasha Rawanduz (Mire Kor, the blind prince) with his troops committed a massacre of the Yazidis in Khatarah. Then he has attacked the Yazidis in Shekhan and killed most of them. In another attempt he and his troops occupied over 300 Yazidi villages. The Kurds have kidnapped over 10,000 Yazidis to Rawandiz. Then they gived them the option to convert to Islam or to be killed. Most of them converted to Islam but 100 Yazidis were killed because they refused. After another massacre, the Kurdish emir Mohammed Pasha Rawanduz captured 500 Yazidi women and girls and kidnapped them to Rawandiz and he gave some of them as a gift to his friends.
• In 1832, the Kurdish emir Bedir Khan Beg (Bedirxan Beg, the prince of Bohtan) with his troops committed a massacre of the Yazidis in Shekhan. The Kurds have killed almost the whole Yazidi population of Shekhan. Some Yazidis escaped to Sinjar.
• In 1832, a Yazidi leader was killed by the Kurdish emir Bedir Khan Beg in Shekhan area. Then the Kurds invaded the villages of the Yazidis and destroyed them. They have killed many Yazidis. By an attempt to escape, many Yazidis have going into the Tigris river. Those Yazidis who could not swim were kidnapped by the Kurds. Then the Kurds give them the option to convert to Islam or to be killed. About 50,000 Yazidis were killed or forced to Islam.
• In 1833, the Yazidis were attacked in the Aqrah region again by the Kurdish emir Mohammed Pasha Rawanduz and his soldiers. The Kurds killed 500 Yazidis in the upper Zab. After that, the Kurds attacked the Yazidis in Sinjar and killed many of them.
• In 1840-1844, the Kurdish emir Bedir Khan Beg committed a repeated massacre of the Yazidis in the Tur Abdin region. At the Islamic sacrificial festival he slaughtered the Yazidis instead of a sheep.
• In 1915-1923, Yazidis were killed alongside Armenians during the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Kurds. More than 300,000 Yazidis were killed. Many Yazidis have also fled to Transcaucasia.

Modern times

• Since 2003, when the Kurds occupied the settlements of the Yazidis in the disputed territories of Northern Iraq, the Yazidis were undergoing a process of Kurdification by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). According to a HRW report the Kurdish authorities have used heavy-handed tactics against the Yazidis and some Yazidis were kidnapped and beaten by the KRG.
• On 3 August 2014 the Yazidis became victims of an ongoing genocide by ISIL. Many Kurds have joined ISIL and attacked the Yazidis. And the genocide could only happen because the Kurdish Peshmerga had fled from ISIL and left the Yazidis defenseless.

Harassment and Discrimination

• The Kurdish government forbids the Yazidis in Sinjar to sell their products in Iraqi Kurdistan and does not allow them to buy products from Iraqi Kurdistan.

See also

• History of the Kurds

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