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Yazidi genocide in Shingal

Attack on Shingal (Sinjar) by an armed group on 3 August 2014: mass killings, abductions and enslavement; the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria found it a genocide (2016).

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Heritage · chronology · After 1991 · 2014

Yazidi genocide in Shingal

Attack on Shingal (Sinjar) by an armed group on 3 August 2014: mass killings, abductions and enslavement; the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria found it a genocide (2016).

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Attack on Shingal (Sinjar) by an armed group on 3 August 2014: mass killings, abductions and enslavement; the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria found it a genocide (2016).

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