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Die Übersetzung von Jans Stimme vom Deutschen ins Englische wurde mit einer KI erstellt.

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The Iraqi government, they are doing nothing for us, especially the Yazidi community.

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You see that people are going abroad, for example to Europe,

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from all other countries. They give them their rights there.

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They give them the stay in Europe, for example.

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We are as Yazidis in our country and we don't have our rights.

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Das ist was ein Mann in Sinjar. Es ist eine Region in Nordwestern Irak.

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Und dieser Mann hat dort zurückgebracht. Er ist in seinem Haus wiedergekommen.

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Und jetzt sagt er, wir haben keine Rechte hier.

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Wie kann das sein? Die Sinjar Region ist die Hohemland der Yazidis,

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eine religiöse Minorität in Irak die jetzt auch eine große Diaspora-Gemunitie in Deutschland.

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Und in 2014, 12 Jahre jetzt, die sogenannte Islamic State swept durch die Region und überran es.

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Hundreds of thousands of Yazidis were driven from their homes.

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Thousands were killed, literally massacred, and thousands of women and girls were abducted.

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The German Bundestag has recognized the crimes committed against the Yazidis as genocide.

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There is aid, there are projects in the region, and there are places where reconstruction is underway.

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And yet, many of those who suffered back then have still not truly returned. Why is that?

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In Crisis Mode, the podcast from Conflict Zones with Jan Jessen.

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Hallo, ich bin Jan Jessen, Waren Crisis Reporter für die Funker Media Group.

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In diesem Episode von In Crisis Mode, ich bin zu den Sinjar-Region.

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Ich war da ein paar Tage, gesprochen mit returnees, mit Menschen versuchen,

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ihre Leben zu verbessern, und mit Irfan Ortak, der Präsidenten des Central Council

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der Yazidis in Deutschland.

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Ja, Sinjar ist eine sehr, sehr spezielle Region, es muss man sagen, in Nordwestern Irak.

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Und zu even getren, du hast einen Irak-Visa, which is always somewhat complicated to obtain.

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In my case, I first had to travel via Egypt, then to Baghdad,

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and from there on to Erbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan,

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before finally continuing to Sinjar.

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And yes, Sinjar is essentially a military-restricted area.

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You also need special permits to move around there. The region is marked by

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countless checkpoints.

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At some point I said or wrote, in Sinjar there is a kind of war of flags.

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There are checkpoints every few hundred meters, military posts everywhere.

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The men stationed there, the soldiers, wear very different insignia on their uniforms.

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That's because many different militias operate there, groups with different loyalties.

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When I was there, as always happens at some checkpoint, I stood out,

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and then intelligence services got involved.

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An intelligence officer, dressed in civilian clothes, questioned me closely,

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und ich habe mir einen deutschen Passport für einen langen Zeit gesehen,

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zu sehen, ob die Visa von Bagdad war real.

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Er hat gefragt, was wir in Sinjar machen waren, und hat es sehr klar,

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dass die Bewegung dort ist jetzt sehr reguliert und sehr restriktiv.

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When I first visited Sinjar in 2015, shortly after the so-called Islamic State

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had been pushed out, you could still basically drive into all the towns and look around freely.

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This time, he told me, you can go as far as Sinun or Borek, but definitely no further.

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And that's where it becomes clear, even though ISIS has long been gone and its

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so-called caliphate destroyed, nothing here in Sinjar is truly normal yet.

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Für die Yazidis, Sinjar ist viel mehr als nur eine Region, es ist ihre Hohenland.

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Until 2014, es war die Hauptsettlemente der diese religiöse Minorenheit.

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Some Yazidis auch in Turkey oder Syria, aber viele leben in Irak,

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specifically in Sinjar.

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Und wie ich bereits gesagt habe, in 2014, ISIS war durch die Region.

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Für die Islamist-Extremisten von ISIS, Yazidis waren die Terror-Worshippers,

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Und sie wurden brutale persecutiert. Thousands wurden getötet.

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Frauen und Kinder wurden abdukt. Zu diesem Tag, es gibt keine Träte von 3,000

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Frauen. Noen weiß was zu ihnen.

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Sie wurden sold und abgedeckt als sex-slaves. Entferte villages wurden erased.

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Viele Familien noch nicht liveen, wo sie damals kamen.

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A large number of sie bleiben in die Flüchtlinge in der Autonomie Region von Kurdistan.

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Es gibt reasons, warum die Menschen nicht zurückkommen. Die Presence von vielen

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verschiedenen Militias, die Lack von Sicherheit, aber auch die Absence von Jobs

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und die Fakt, dass Infrastruktur ist immer noch nicht verletzt.

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Wenn ich da diese Zeit war, das war mein 10 oder 15er Besuch zu Sinjar,

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ich auch sah, dass in ein paar Bereichen Menschen zu kommen,

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zum Beispiel zu Sinjun, eine kleine Stadt in Sinjar.

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Life has started again there. You see men sitting in teahouses,

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small shops and food stalls lining the streets, sheep being transported on pickup

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trucks, trucks delivering stones and building materials.

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At first glance it looks somewhat ordinary again, but the memory of 2014 is

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everywhere, and so is the insecurity.

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Not far from Sinun lies Gunde-Asan, a young settlement close to the mountain

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that gives the region its name, the Sinjar Mountain. Es ist eine langer mountaineinend,

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die durch die Mitte der Region, die in den Norden und Süd.

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Das mountainein wurde ein Platz von Isis kam.

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Die Leute hier weggekommen. Sie erinnern die dramatische Bilder von August 2014,

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die Menschen in den Mänten ohne supplies escaped. Die Leute da weggekommen,

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die Angst, die Hunger haben, bevor sie von der Luft geflogen.

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Und das ist das Landein war eine Lifeline.

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Das ist warum ein Settlement wie Gunde-Asaan Es gibt heute viele Familien zu

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starten über den Mountain, weil sie Angst, was in 2014 passiert,

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und weil sie sich da weit entfernt, wenn es notwendig ist.

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Ich habe auch ein kleines Scholes dort gesucht, ein Projekt von der Karitas

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Refugee Aid Organisation in Essen. Ich bin transparente, ich persönlich involvete

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als Volontär mit Karitas Refugee Aid.

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Wir haben diese Scholes vier Jahre vor, in Gunde-Asaan.

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In der Kourtyarde, Kinder stehen in schwarze und schwarze Schäuze.

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Es sah etwas wie ein Uniform von der Karte, aber es war nicht die Einführung.

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Alles in Sinjar ist improvised.

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Forty-five families live in this village. These families divide the work among themselves.

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Each family takes turns managing the greenhouses. When four or five families

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are on duty and stay here, the others take care of their own affairs. That's how it works.

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Das ist genau der Punkt. Das Projekt ist nicht nur ein bisschen Geld,

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sondern es bringt eine Struktur in ein dailyes Leben, das, für viele Familien,

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hat lange nur nur von Uncertainty gegeben.

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Der Mann, die du hörst, in den Beginn, kommt von Tal Azzer.

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Nach dem ISIS-Fahrer, wie viele andere, er fuhr zu den neigern Kurdistan.

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Es war wirklich dramatisch, dann.

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Als ich sagte, August 2014.

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Ich war da ein paar Tage später und sah es ersthand. Es war einfach schockiert.

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Hundreds of thousands of Menschen waren in den streets of Erbil,

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Duhok und andere Stadt in den Autonomous Kurdistan Region, in Mosques, in Schools.

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Und was ich fand, was wie die localen Bevölkerung, die Kurds und Kurdish residents,

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provided für diese Menschen, because the state or the Kurdish regional government

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simply couldn't keep up.

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People even carried mattresses out of their homes so that others wouldn't have to sleep on the streets.

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On the one hand it was extremely dramatic, but on the other hand it was also

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impressive to see how a society organized itself and helped people in such a situation.

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This man, the farmer you heard earlier, returned to Sinjar in 2016.

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That is unusual. Most people at the time stayed in the autonomous Kurdistan

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region because Sinjar was extremely, extremely unsafe, much more unsafe than it is today.

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But he did not return to his original village.

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In Tal Azzer, our houses were destroyed and they gave us nothing.

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So how am I supposed to go back? Die Iraki government was supposed to give families

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1,000,000 Iraqi dinars.

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Later, returning families were even supposed to receive 4,000,000 dinars.

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But I didn't receive anything.

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Yes, what he is referring to here, the 1,000,000 Iraqi dinars, is not a large amount.

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I would estimate that's roughly 800 to 900 euros. Families were once promised

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that they would receive this money.

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It was paid out briefly a few months ago, but that support has since been discontinued again.

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So this is another key issue. If you arrive back with nothing and there are

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no jobs in Sinjar, then it is obviously very difficult to rebuild a life.

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At the same time, you also hear something different in the greenhouse project,

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namely that local employment can make a real difference for returnees. Ich bin heute Morgen.

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Ich bin 2014 und ich bin 2016.

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My name is Sabah Karo. I come from Boric. Wir sind in 2014 und zurückgekehrt

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in 2016. Ich bin ein Farmer von profession.

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Das Jahr, ich bin die Möglichkeit, um in diesem Projekt zu arbeiten.

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Es ist besser hier als da. Wir sind viel besser hier. Wir freuen uns hier zusammen.

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In addition, das Place ist close to the market.

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Ich bin ein Foto, wenn ich mich nicht so gerne bin. Ich bin ein Foto,

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wenn ich nicht so gerne bin.

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Das ist natürlich Teil der Wahrheit von Sinjar. Projekte wie die Greenhouse

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Initiative oder die Schule sind, am besten, die in den Osten.

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Sie können ein paar Familien unterstützen, aber das ist es. Es gibt auch andere

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Initiativen, zum Beispiel von der Barzani Charity Foundation,

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die wir mit dem Partner, ein Partner, die wir mit dort arbeiten.

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Sie bauen Wohnungen für Familien zurück. Es ist fast unglaublich.

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Wohnungen in Sinjar kosten rund 14,000 Euro für eine Familie von 7. so relatively little.

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They do this work, but of course it only helps a limited number of people.

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And above all, such projects do not solve the major political problems.

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But they do make return possible for some individuals.

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They cannot make up for everything that has been lost. First and foremost,

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people's own homes are gone.

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And they also cannot resolve the ongoing uncertainty. What happens next in Sinjar?

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How will the political conflicts there be settled? As I mentioned earlier,

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There are multiple militias competing for influence and control,

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as well as the Iraqi Federal Army and Federal Police operating there.

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There are Shia militias, the Hasht al-Shaabi, which are more or less controlled by Iran.

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Within their ranks are now also Yazidis, who earn an income through them.

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There are militias linked to the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party.

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There are also militias aligned with the Kurdish regional government in Erbil.

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In other words, it is an extremely complex situation, und Insekretär ist etwas,

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was man immer hören kann, der Angst, dass ISIS ein Tag zurück könnte.

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Ein anderer Pfarrer meinte sehr klar, wo ich schlaue, wie ich ein Leben mache,

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wie meine Kinder gehen, ist es安全, kann ich bleiben,

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This farmer has a large family of 14 people and told me how difficult the years

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after returning have been.

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It was difficult. My children worked in shops. Each of them earned 10,000 Iraqi dinars per day.

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10,000 Iraqi dinars is practically nothing. 1,000 Iraqi dinars is roughly 80 euro cents.

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So we are talking about about 8 euros per day.

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That is, of course, not a meaningful income. Für eine Familie von 14,

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das ist nicht finanziell security. Es ist survival, nichts mehr.

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Das ist warum ich die Projekte wie die Greenhouse Initiative so wichtig finde.

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Nicht weil sie all die Probleme lösen, sie natürlich nicht. Aber weil sie Menschen ein Grund zu bleiben.

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Ein kleiner Income, ein Task, ein bestimmtes Level von Stabilität.

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Und yet, obwohl sie jetzt haben diese Greenhouses, und obwohl sie nicht nur

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eine Dächtung, sondern auch ein Income, Sie kommen noch mit Probleme.

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Die Prices für Cucumber und Tomatoes sind sehr volatil. Sie gehen auf und auf,

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auf wie viel ist imported aus der Nähe von Turkey oder Syrien.

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Außerdem gibt es auch, dass es die Zürfnisse anbieten, dass es gut ist.

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Aber es ist nur gut, aber es nur einfach lässt sie leben. Und das ist wichtig.

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In der Sinjar region oft macht es die difference zwischen dem und dem Staying.

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Die Situation ist eine Sache. The other, perhaps even more important question

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is Do people here feel safe?

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I'm not sure. If there were international security, it would be different.

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But around us there are only Muslims and Arabs.

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It is difficult for us. That is a sentence that naturally makes you pause.

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When someone says, Muslims and Arabs surround us, and that is difficult for us.

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In fact, it is true that the Sinjar region is not exclusively inhabited by Yazidis.

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Yazidis are the majority, but there are also many Muslim Arabs living in towns

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like Tal Afar, or in Sinjar City itself, the largest town in the region.

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Und viele von diesen Menschen, und das ist ein Teil der Uncomfortable-Truth,

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waren die Verletzungen in 2014, die sofort in ISIS-Abergen waren,

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als die Gruppe swept durch die Erie.

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Als ein Ergebnis, da ist noch ein tiefes Verständnis heute. Das Verständnis

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kann nicht einfach vergessen.

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Wie könnte es sein, wenn die Leute gesehen haben, die Kinder zu töten,

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verloren haben, oder sah die Eltern abducken?

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So das ist, of course, sehr schwierig. Und insofern, die Veränderung zwischen

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den Yazidis zu den Muslimen Arabischen bleibt sehr, sehr tief in diesem Zeitpunkt.

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Die Yazidis also experienced in 2014, wie alle sensen von Sicherheit plötzlich disappeared.

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Sie sahen Kurdische Security Forces, die sie verletzten, die sie verletzten,

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verletzten, nachdem ISIS kam.

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Das führte sich in Sicherheit. Das Gefühl hat nicht einfach,

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was die Farmer, oder die Farmer in generell, erleben als die Realität,

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Irfan Ortak describes as political failure.

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Ortak is the chairman of the Central Council of the Yazidis in Germany.

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The council was founded in 2017 to represent the interests of the Yazidi community in Germany.

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For Ortak, it is clear, the military defeat of ISIS does not mean the problem is solved,

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Die Lage in Shingar sieht zwar im Gegensatz vor einigen Jahren etwas entspannter

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aus, aber die politischen Perspektiven...

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Although the situation in Sinjar appears somewhat more relaxed compared to a

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few years ago, the political outlook is still concerning.

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Namely, that more than 250,000 people are still living as internally displaced

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persons in Kurdistan, dass viele noch nicht zurückkehren und die Yezidi-Villages

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in Sinjar sind noch nicht mehr verletzend.

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Überall, die Irregular militias in Sinjar, insbesondere die mit den PKK und

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die mit dem Hasid al-Shaabi, die noch immer noch in den Städten arbeiten,

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die Menschen nicht mehr verletzten oder nicht mehr verletzten.

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All diese Facts machen uns in der Central Council von Yazidis.

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Immer noch quasi Staat im Staat sind und die Menschen sich nicht frei bewegen

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können und sich frei entfalten können,

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all diese Tatsachen stimmen uns als Zentralrat der Jesiden in Deutschland sehr traurig ein.

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Yes, ORTAK clearly identifies the core problem.

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The war may be over, but the order that should follow it has still not been established.

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For people who have never been there, this sounds relatively abstract,

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Aber auf der Grund die Frage ist sehr einfach.

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Wer ist eigentlich in charge hier?

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Wer kontrolliert die Straßen? Wer protects die Menschen? Und als es keine klarste

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Antwort auf diese Frage ist, zurück remains, für viele, einfach ein RISK.

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Ich habe auch gesehen das in Pläne, wo es Leben visibly zurückgekehrt ist.

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In Sinunay, für example.

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Und in Gunde Asan, this small village where children receive their report cards

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und dreamt of future professions.

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These Pläne show that life is continuing, but also that it is continuing with

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reservations, because reconstruction is stalling.

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Many people have started building again, especially those still living in refugee

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camps in the autonomous Kurdistan region, or those renting houses and apartments

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there, working as day labourers, saving money, and gradually rebuilding their homes in Sinjar,

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because their hearts are still there and they want to return.

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But everything takes a very long time.

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This was also visible in Gunde-Asan. Some houses are already finished,

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but many are still just shells.

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And in the south of Sinjar, many villages are still destroyed, still in ruins.

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Infrastructure remains in poor condition, mainly because Baghdad,

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the central government now responsible for Sinjar, is doing relatively little there.

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As mentioned, some families dare to return.

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There have also been many cases of people returning to Sinjar,

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only to go back again to the autonomous Kurdistan region.

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Und viele von denen du sprichst, eigentlich dreamt nach Europa zu gehen.

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Although ISIS has been defeated and no longer formally exists there,

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it is incomprehensible to us why Yazidis still cannot return to their homeland,

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why the Iraqi state and the Iraqi government are not doing everything possible

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to enable these people to return to their homeland, to have a long-term prospect

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of staying there and to rebuild their houses.

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Dass die Häuser wieder aufgebaut werden. Ja, dieser Kritik von Autak ist direkt

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auf Bagdad und es ist nicht neu.

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Der Irak-Geräusch hat die Hilfe und die Reconstruktion gegründet.

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Aber aus der Perspektive der vielen Yazidis, das passiert sehr schnell.

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Too wenig arrives, oder nichts überhaupt.

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Und ich meine, Deutschland ist auch ein sehr wichtiges Fund für Reconstruktion.

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In 2016 oder 2017, wir haben mit dem dann-German-Geräusch-Generer in Erdbeeren, Erbil.

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Sie sagte mir, an der Zeit, dass über 67 Millionen Euro bereits in Sinjar auf

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der Germanen Seite investiert.

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Und ich fragte, »Ich habe zu Sinjar several times und habe nicht gesehen,

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dass es nichts von Sinjar gibt.

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Unless underground work hat sich getan, wie ein Subway-System,

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ein Kanal-System, oder so, ich wirklich nicht weiß, wo das Geld eigentlich ging.

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Es kam dann, dass Deutschland das Geld zu Bagdad hat.

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Und, wahrscheinlich, sehr wenig von Sinjar hat sich erreicht Sinjar.«.

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The farmer I met in the greenhouse says exactly the same thing.

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His house is destroyed, money was promised, but nothing ever arrived.

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And at the same time, there is another side. There are people who are rebuilding.

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There is the school principal who told me he would like to open a preschool.

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There are children who dream of becoming doctors or engineers.

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There are families building houses, even if the money is often only enough for

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the shell or the very first steps.

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And there is the greenhouse project where 45 families are working,

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All of this shows, people are not just waiting, they are trying to help themselves.

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But this self-help has its limits. It cannot replace major politics.

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That is, I think, the core problem. Security is not guaranteed.

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It cannot compensate for missing state structures.

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What is needed is more than humanitarian aid. It requires political commitment.

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For this reason, Irfan Otak's focus is not only on Iraq.

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In this context, I would really like to remind the international community that

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it made a promise to the Yazidis, not only to defeat ISIS, but also to ensure

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that they can return to their homeland again.

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This is an important point. Taking military action against ISIS was one thing.

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Enabling people to return safely afterwards is something entirely different.

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If you travel through Sinjar today, you can see that there is help.

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There are individual projects. There are schools, greenhouses, small initiatives.

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Clinics have been built, hospitals as well. But many Yazidis are missing something else.

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A comprehensive plan that ties everything together. Security,

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reconstruction, employment, administration.

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And the certainty that return is not just a brief moment, but a real long-term prospect.

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This is exactly where the tension in the region lies. From the outside,

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you can look at certain developments and say, things are improving,

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life has returned to Sinyoun, children go to school, families work in agriculture, all of that is true.

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But the people I speak to say something different. Yes, we are here,

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but we have not truly arrived yet.

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ORTAC becomes particularly clear when it comes to Germany.

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Als deutsche Yezidi muss ich wirklich meinen Tone in diesem Zusammenhang geben.

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Als ein German Yezidi, ich muss wirklich meine Tone in diesem Kontext geben.

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Ich bin sehr froh in meinem eigenen Regierung, in meinem eigenen Staat, Deutschland.

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Apart von ein paar Showcase-Projekte, wir sehen nichts für Yezidis.

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Yes, this is the bizarre situation. Germany has formally recognized the genocide

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against the Yazidis as such.

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The German Bundestag passed a corresponding resolution and also stated that

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Germany bears a special responsibility to protect the Yazidis.

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With this genocide resolution, many naturally hoped that more would follow than just a symbolic act.

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Ortak says very clearly that this has not happened. He misses a broader and

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more sustainable approach, A plan that truly helps people leave the camps,

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return to their homeland, and be able to stay there.

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Whether one agrees with every point of this criticism or not,

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if you spend time in Sinjar, you understand where it comes from.

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I think of the farmer in the greenhouse, of his family of 14,

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of the children working for a few thousand dinars a day, of his statement that

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he has no rights in his own country,

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and I think of the school in Gunde-Asan, of the children with their report cards, their ambition,

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und der Headmaster, der weitergeht, obwohl alles was missing.

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Und ich denke auch, wie absolut necessär es ist, dass Yazidis eine Zukunft haben in Sinjar.

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Wenn sie keine Prospekt haben, wenn sie nicht verletzt, wenn sie die Region

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verletzt, dann diese ancient Religion wird immer in ihrer Hohenland verletzt.

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At der very least, die Gemeinde wird fragmented, scattered across viele verschiedene,

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Länder. Es gibt jetzt Yazidis in viele Länder über Europa.

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Deutschland hat die größte Diaspora,

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Aber es gibt auch Gemeinschaften in Australien, Kanada und den USA.

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Sie sind allgemein in der Welt verbreitet, das ist natürlich ein großer Herausforderung

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für diese religiöse Gemeinschaft.

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Und zurück zu Sinjar bedeutet auch, dass man dort leben kann,

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mit einem Roof über deinem Kopf, mit einem Income, mit Schulen für Kinder,

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mit der Freiheit der Bewegung, und mit der Hoffnung, dass alles nicht wiederum

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fliegt. Aber es ist genau diese Hoffnung, die ist missing.

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Und das wurde sehr klar in den Gesprächen, die ich auf dem Boden hatte.

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Irfan Ortaq also describes the political side of the same problem.

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Too little protection, too little reconstruction, too little reliable state

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presence, too little consistency from the Iraqi and international side.

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Still, it would be wrong to end this story on a purely bleak note.

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Because, as mentioned, there are also people who do not give up.

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Teachers who teach, families who build, children who learn, farmers who stay.

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And my impression after this trip was, Sinjar does not need more big words.

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Sinjar needs action, it needs support, and above all, it needs security,

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reliable and under clear state control, reconstruction and compensation that actually reach people,

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and jobs and economic prospects that go beyond isolated projects.

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As long as this is missing, rebuilding Sinjar will remain extremely difficult.

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ISIS has been defeated militarily, but for the survivors, this story will only

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truly be over when they can live in safety again.

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