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http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/kurdish-teenager-stoned-to-death-near-mosul/After she was killed, her body was taken outside of town, burned,
and [ritualistically] buried
with the bones of a dog,
to show how worthless she was.
An autopsy showed she died of a fractured skull and spine.
Already in 2003, the German news magazine, Der Spiegel, wrote:More and more often, police must protect young women from the Yasidi faith community from their own relatives – and help them flee.
2007:
VIDEO: The stoning of Du’a Khalil Aswad
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1wjpg_stonedtodeath_news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_Du'a_Khalil_Aswad
Du’a Khalil Aswad (دعاء خليل أسود)(c. 1989 – c. April 7, 2007) was a 17-year-old Iraqi Kurd of the Yazidi faith who was stoned to death in an honor killing.[SUP][1][/SUP] It is believed that she was killed around April 7, 2007, but the incident did not come to light until video of the stoning, apparently recorded on a mobile phone, appeared on the Internet.[SUP][2][/SUP] The rumor that the stoning was connected to her alleged conversion to Islam prompted reprisals against Yazidis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pic.../Who-are-the-Iraqi-Yazidis.html?frame=3000896They have a tradition of killing any of their members who leave the religion
part 1
part 2
2011:
The 18-year-old woman, identified only as Arzu Ö., was violently kidnapped from her boyfriend’s flat in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, last November, and taken to a motorway services station where she was shot dead.
Judge Michael Reineke heard that she had been beaten several times by members of her own family, particularly her brother Osman, and that in September 2011 she had fled to a refuge and filed official complaints against her brother and father.
“That was pretty much her death sentence,” the judge said, according to a report in the Berliner Zeitung newspaper on Wednesday. Referring to the Kurdish roots and Yazidi faith,
http://www.thelocal.de/20120517/42605
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/16/kurdistance-the-honor-killing-of-dua/The next shocking aspect of Yazidi culture that I have discovered was the way women are treated. A few months ago, a Yazidi lady published a critical view about the treatment of women within her society. It was clear that Yazidi women are treated even worse than Muslim women. The impression one would get is that the sexual act within the Yazidi marriage does not differ considerably from rape. The man is expected to be as rough as possible without slightest regard to her feelings or humanity. However, here we cannot ignore that such an attitude might have been also influenced by Islam. It might be a case of impressionable victim taking after the aggressor, when the aggressor is not punish and left to make ill-begotten gains and claim glory on top of all that, as Muslims do.[5] It seems that Yazidis have been trying to convey a message to the Islamic neighborhood that although they differ slightly in their religions they share all other values with Muslims, particularly in regard to women, whose sexuality seems to have become the pivot of Yazidi and Islamic men’s honor.
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They would not marry an outsider who is from their Yezidi belief. They would kill a Yezidi girl who marries a Muslim Kurd etc. They are very strict in preserving this tradition.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/stephenbrown/a-new-sect-of-honor-killing-enthusiasts/“Every woman who flees the home is the object of an honor murder,” noted one German social worker. The Federal Crime Office (Germany’s FBI) registered 48 such homicides between 1996 and 2006 with a further 22 people surviving attempted honor killings.
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http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-26060059.html
06.01.2003 ALIENS
Hunting Sükrüya
From Fröhlingsdorf, Michael
Increasingly, police officers must protect young women from the religious community of Yezidis in front of their own relatives - and help them escape. Because the clan put archaic marriage rules if necessary by force.
THE Yazidi
belong to a constantly pursued archaic religious community from the Kurdish areas in the Middle East. There are an estimated 150,000 Yazidis live. Came to Germany as guest workers or refugees, around 30 000 In addition to the belief in God and an angel are the Yazidis particularly important their strict social rules - especially the caste system and the prohibition to marry non-Yazidi.
For a sentimental farewell to the parents, the young girl did not have time. It was just after midnight, and Sükrüya E. squeezed through a basement hole to freedom. Merely dressed in T-shirt and jeans, she ran down the road towards Celle city center. Only away, do not turn around, run, run.
Here, the evening was not a bad start. Together with his family, the girl at a Yezidi wedding had been. Right in the middle Sükrüya had slunk away and met secretly with her boyfriend, a Pakistani Muslim. 300 meters from their doorstep then came the disaster: Just they said goodbye to the beloved with a kiss, as one of her six brothers showed up. He grabbed his sister, dragged her by force home. He pushed her in a basement room and locked the door. "Wait until the parents get home," he said.
What happens to the Yazidi girl who engage with other faiths, knew Sükrüya: If they are lucky, they are only ejected.
If they are unlucky, they are so long locked away and beaten until they knuckle under. And they saw only one way out: get out, no money, no papers, no idea of how a struggling, 16-year-old.
That was five and a half years ago, and still is the woman with her Pakistani boyfriend on the run. She hid in various cities in Germany, the Netherlands, in Belgium - and is the opinion of the Celler police still in critical condition.
Around ten similar dramas edit the officials alone in the room Celle per year. Because there live about 5000 Yazidis, it is one of the largest settlements of the religious community pursued outside the city center in northern Iraq. Increasingly try young women, and sometimes men, to escape the strict rules of marriage Yazidi. They seek refuge at the police station or at the Youth Office, they get a new identity, to be brought in other cities, sometimes even abroad include Spain.
For the Yezidi clan chiefs rarely give up; they often want to retrieve the apostates with violence - or simply revenge. To get the volatile women on the trail, they entrust before detectives or the banned Kurdish Workers' Party PKK. The entertains the opinion of the police a veritable Investigation Service to track the renegades and so to gain support among the clans.
What it means to be persecuted by relatives, Sükrüya E. soon noticed. During the night of her escape she had gone with her friend to Hamburg in the morning then on to Flensburg to a brother of his friend. For an hour she was on the phone from there with her mother and tried in vain to explain the reasons for their flight, she says. Then she was gone with her boyfriend in the city to buy from his savings a jacket, a pair of shoes.
Together they took too long: On the way back, told Sükrüya, did several cars with Celler flag outside the house seen: The men of her clan had either found out where the brother of her friend lived - or they may have had the phone number on the display seen .
Sükrüya hid in a hospital, later they emerged with acquaintances at a refugee center in Pinneberg. But even there it was only a few days safely. Then again stood darkly resolute Kurds outside the door - a roommate the girl had probably betrayed. At the last minute Sükrüya jumped out the window, and again they ran for life and freedom.
"It's hard to believe that the Yazidis always find the tracks," said an investigator wonders. Profiles of the fugitives would be passed by Kurdish cultural associations from city to city. The PKK could be based on such actions on its nationwide infrastructure. Any hints there bounty.
Not rarely succeeds the clans even to come to protected data - either because sitting in authorities clerk that can be elicit by tearful wailing mothers addresses, it is because family members work in offices or even about commercial insurance is.
Frequently try parents, relatives or even religious leaders to find the renegades with the help of the police. The trick is simple: you must reimburse only complaint for kidnapping or theft. Sometimes even goes as missing to get the file - and so perhaps the new address of the disappeared. This is why many refugees report to the police and inform that they have run away freely.
What she drifts away from her relatives, who came as guest workers or as religious persecution mainly from Iraq and Turkey to Germany, are medieval-like rules: Yezidis have a virgin marry, she may fall in love only to another Yazidis - and only in a from their own social caste, of which there are three. Because it is so often difficult to find a suitable partner, is very often married traditionally within the extended family. Also Sükrüya should marry a cousin she says.
And the families steadfastly adhered together. If for once a complaint for assault, false imprisonment or rape lands on the desk of a German official statements are often later withdrawn or denied with regard to the close relationship. "Many procedures must then be adjusted again," says the head of the police station Celle, Gerald Schomburg. And the Celler prosecutor Gertrud Peest can not remember a judgment - even though she now knows dozens flight cases.
So a desperate Jesidin had a year ago reported to the police and asked for help: A relative of them guarding around the clock, and she was afraid for her friend who had been kidnapped by several clan members. The young Muslim reported a short time later on a call box at the highway police in North Rhine-Westphalia. He jumped at a rest area out of a car with several Kurds wanted to bring him to Dusseldorf airport to fly out him in the Middle East.
A pretty clear case of false imprisonment, the Celle prosecutor took up the investigation. But a little later all parties withdrew their statements, and the young woman and her boyfriend. The process had to be stopped.
The tenacity with which the Yezidi pursue their renegade girl stands in a strange contradiction to the contents of their religion, for which is regarded as very peaceful. A missionary as in Islam or in Christianity there is not - you Jeside is only by birth. Religious zealots are rare.
There are no binding writings, because religion is transmitted mainly orally.
"Even the most Yazidis itself is relatively little known about the Yezidi religion," says the Essenes anthropologist Andreas Ackermann. This is particularly true for the laity caste of mureeds, which includes most Yazidis. Many mureeds know neither prayers, nor do they take part in religious ceremonies.
In a scientific survey of Yazidis by the University of Cologne in the year before last two scientists came to the conclusion that a bid by all interviewees as "the most essential" was called: Marry only within thy faith and of thy order. Many had occurred to no other jesidisches bid.
Constantly monitor the parents therefore their children, full of concern, they could slip them. The more the young generation tries to fit in Germany, more violent hold the ancients, however. A school friend had Sükrüyas about to leave high school and go to high school, just because of the way home was to monitor shorter and therefore better from there.
It's not just about the archaic morality, it is also about money: Up to 40,000 EUR fathers have to shell out, so that her son can marry a Yezidi Virgin - although the highest Yezidi clerics Mir Tahsin Saied Beg from Iraq the bride money recently on wanted to limit € 2500, to stop the ruinous for some family gouging.
Previously all young people had been killed, did not adhere to the rules of marriage, writes the Yezidi teacher candidate Nezir as in a scientific paper. In Germany, the Yazidis would find most "necessity" so from that disobedient only to banish. But here in the West would hardly disappear the violence, but it serves to "restore the family's honor".
Nezir example itself is a special witness of the often murderous practices of the clans: He sits in Bielefeld an eleven-year prison sentence on murder. In January 2001, he had dressed as a postman another shot Yazidis, who had killed his brother before. A bid of blood revenge.
How violent can be immediate family itself, learned Sükrüya E., as her family had tracked in Amsterdam. After their escape from Germany they had there only once rented a hotel room - unfortunately under her real name. That was enough for the Kurdish scouts apparently.
First Sükrüya E. confessed to her mother that she was pregnant. The have her then so rabidly beaten in the abdomen that she had lost her child, she says. With bloody pants it was her then but managed to escape. For some Pakistani friends were her and her friend came to help and have the Yazidi put to flight: "One of my brothers has since vowed deadly vengeance," says Sükrüya.
Thereafter, the Jesidin, the daughter of migrant workers has the German nationality, tried with her partner, to make a living in Cologne. But in the summer, she received a surprise post from the registration office. A lawyer for her mother had asked for registration information. Sükrüya called - camouflaged on a British satellite phone - at home, in order to settle once and for all time the situation: "Instead of listening, I was my father yelled at the worst Kurdish foul language."
In a later phone call, she spoke to one of her brothers - they begged for help: He had a Croatian friend. "In revenge to my parents I have helped him," says Sükrüya. In his escape, he slipped her under in Cologne and telephoned from their telephone with relatives - obviously a mistake.
Through a tip, police in Celle soon wind of the fact that Sükrüyas family would embark on a campaign of revenge towards Rhineland received. "At the last minute we were able to bring the family out of the apartment," said Police Chief Schomburg. Now Sükrüya E. tried elsewhere to start again from the beginning.
Schomburg and fears that he might soon need to protect young women more frequently as E. Sükrüya of their own clan - namely, it should be a new war where most Yazidis live: in Iraq. "Then again, thousands of refugees are pouring into Germany, including many traditional Yazidis."
MICHAEL FRÖHLING VILLAGE
THE MIRROR 2/2003
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Reproduction only with permission of SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG.
According to competent and informal local organizations the number of suicides have exceeded more than 30 cases during the current year among Yazidis,www.Ekurd.net as 53 suicides have been monitored in Sinjar district in 2012, while 70 suicides have been registered in 2011 and 36 cases during 2010 among Yazidis.
Activists say in this regard that these figures are much lower than the real numbers, because there are many cases that are not monitored or families of the people who committed suicides refrain for the registration deaths of their loved ones, attributing the reason to accidental incidents.
Statistics show that the percentage of male suicides is of 36 % and 64% of women, as people who commit suicide are aged between 18 and 30 years old.
Women usually tend to burn themselves mostly
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2013/11/kurdsiniraq214.htm
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2013/2/state6863.htm89 women killed, 357 burnt in Iraq's Kurdistan region in 2012
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