ZAKHO, Iraq -- Northern Iraq is facing a refugee
crisis, with an estimated 182,000 Yazidis fleeing to Kurdistan to escape
the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) army. Many have sought refuge in
Kurdish cities, dwelling in abandoned office buildings.
Just behind the northern Iraqi city of Zakho are the
mountains that lead to Turkey, which is very close, just several
kilometers away. Many of the Yazidis who have come to Zakho say they
prefer to go to Turkey. That's because they can no longer live with
Muslim Arabs.
One Yazidi leader told CBN News hundreds of Muslim
neighbors turned against his people when Islamic State fighters arrived
in Sinjar.
"These Arabic tribes, they joined them," Faris Elias Kholo told CBN News.
"They took away our females, children, old men,
everything," he continued. "Even if we get back our homes, we cannot
live with the Arabs because they usually try to persecute us."
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