Special Envoy to Sinjar and Erbil
Every morning, Doctor Hussein Rasho walks past his father's “madafa”, the guesthouse where neighbors and friends came to discuss anything and everything over hot tea.
"It's a real trauma,
" he said, "
to see her reduced to a pile of rubble."
This young doctor was one of the first to return, in 2017, to his village of Dogri, at the foot of Mount Sinjar, in northern Iraq, which had just been freed from the bloodthirsty yoke of Daesh.
Before leaving, the jihadists had dynamited most of the houses of this locality, populated by Yazidis, this Kurd-speaking minority with distant Iranian origins, victims of a genocide on August 3, 2014, when the Islamic State seized the region. of Sinjar.
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