It is a long and courageous fight, after one of the most atrocious crimes of recent years. Kidnapped, sold, raped, tortured by fanatics of the Islamic State, Yazidi women rise up against their alleged torturers. Including two French jihadists, Sabri Essid and Nabil Greseque, targeted by two judicial inquiries for genocide and crimes against humanity opened by the national anti-terrorism prosecution on October 25 for Essid and July 10 for Greseque.
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And the list could go on. The two men are accused, in particular from testimonies of victims, of having participated in Iraq in the abuses against the Yazidi minority (a small non-Muslim Kurdish-speaking ethno-religious group). After having occupied, in 2014, the region of Sinjar (historical home of the group, in the far north of Iraq), Daesh implemented a plan of systematic persecution: thousands of assassinations, cases of torture, rape and enslavement of women, kidnappings
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