{"title":"世界已经忘记了我们:辛贾尔和伊斯兰国对耶兹迪人的种族灭绝托马斯·施米丁格(评论)","authors":"E. Artan","doi":"10.1215/15525864-10462397","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this book Thomas Schmidinger not only investigates the mass murder of the Êzidi population (often referred to as Yezidis in English) in the region of Sinjar (Şingal in Kurdish), started on August 3, 2014, by the Islamic State (IS), but also portrays the history of the Kurdish region along with religious and ethnic groups that have long lived together. Schmidinger mainly argues that the Êzidi culture has not been well known in Western countries, especially when the Êzidi people in diaspora were seeking political support to stop the IS attacks and then the war crimes, including years-long human trafficking and sexual abuse of Êzidi women and children. 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The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis by Thomas Schmidinger (review)
In this book Thomas Schmidinger not only investigates the mass murder of the Êzidi population (often referred to as Yezidis in English) in the region of Sinjar (Şingal in Kurdish), started on August 3, 2014, by the Islamic State (IS), but also portrays the history of the Kurdish region along with religious and ethnic groups that have long lived together. Schmidinger mainly argues that the Êzidi culture has not been well known in Western countries, especially when the Êzidi people in diaspora were seeking political support to stop the IS attacks and then the war crimes, including years-long human trafficking and sexual abuse of Êzidi women and children. Therefore the principal aim of this study is to provide visibility to the long history of the Êzidi society in Sinjar and to the experiences of the Êzidi immigrants, mainly those who survived the most recent IS attacks and now live in Europe (mainly in Germany and Australia) and North America. Schmidinger divided the book into three main sections: (1) history of Sinjar and the genocide, (2) photographs, and (3) interviews. In the first section Schmidinger describes the geography and the political history of Sinjar from ancient times to the present in the Kurdish region, including Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. He also explains the Êzidi culture and their social structure, daily life, and religious practices, as well as the threats and attacks they endured under the ideology of monotheist religions, and the perception of genocide in Êzidi history. This chapter also clearly illustrates the Islamist jihadis’ attacks in the summer of 2014 with a chronological reading of the skirmish, from the early days of military conflicts in the region of Sinjar to the political debates in 2021, by exposing the war crimes (abduction, killing, and rape of civilians) accompanying the abysmal living conditions of the Êzidi seeking protection in the refugee camps located in Turkey and Iraq. The narratives of the survivors who had to flee from the IS, especially the women who had been subject to slave trade, and the