'A Catastrophe': Yazidi Survivor Recalls Horror Of Evading ISIS And Death -- CNN
Irbil, Iraq (CNN) -- Which is worse: Running desperately for your life, or seeing others' lives end without enough to eat or drink?
It's an impossible question to answer. Then again, it's difficult to fathom most anything thousands of minority Yazidis have endured in recent weeks as they've fled from ISIS militants into remote, rugged, sparse mountains of northern Iraq.
"With my own eyes, I saw dogs feeding off dead bodies," one of those Yazidis, a man named Tariq, told CNN.
"It's not a crisis. It's a catastrophe."
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More News On The Plight Of Iraq's Minority Communities Who Are Feeling The Wrath Of Islamic Militants
Islamic State militants tell 300 Yazidi families: convert or die -- Reuters
Kurds rescue Yazidis from Iraqi mountain -- Al Jazeera
Thousands From Iraq Minority Flee to Syria -- AP
We Need an Army: Iraq Refugees in Erbil Urge Obama to Do More -- NBC
Iraq crisis: save us from death -- The Telegraph
Iraq conflict: US aid drop follows fresh raids on militants -- BBC
Iraqi refugees 'facing genocide' to receive UK airdrop of aid -- The Guardian
'Isis has shattered the ancient ties that bound Iraq's minorities' -- The Guardian
Who are the religious and ethnic groups under threat from ISIS? -- Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Update: A disturbing report from The Daily Mail .... Crucified by the Caliphate monsters: Iraq descends into apocalypse as Islamic State fanatics seize towns and tell terrified Yazidi 'Become Muslims by noon today... or we kill all of you' -- Daily Mail
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