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Sinjar : 14 days that saved the Yazidis from Islamic State

How were new Yazidi immigrants working from a Super 8 motel in Maryland able to help defeat the warriors of Islamic State on the battlefield? This is the extraordinary tale of how a few American-Yazidis in Washington, DC, mobilized a small, forgotten office in the American government to intervene mi...

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Main Author: Shand, Susan, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, CT : LP, [2018]
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Yezidis > Crimes against > Iraq > History > 21st century.
Yezidi women > Crimes against > Iraq > History > 21st century.
Genocide > Iraq > History > 21st century.
United States > Military relations > Iraq.
Iraq > Military relations > United States.
Nonfiction.
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Summary: How were new Yazidi immigrants working from a Super 8 motel in Maryland able to help defeat the warriors of Islamic State on the battlefield? This is the extraordinary tale of how a few American-Yazidis in Washington, DC, mobilized a small, forgotten office in the American government to intervene militarily in Iraq to avert a devastating humanitarian crisis. While Islamic State massacred many thousands of Yazidi men and sold thousands more Yazidi women into slavery, the U.S. intervention saved the lives of 50,000 Yazidis.
Physical Description: xiii, 240 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781493033652
1493033654

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