‘It’s on our shoulders’: Ten years after Yazidi genocide, survivors refuse to give up on the missing
This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. By Tara Brian IT was one in the morning on a spring night in 2019 when Sanaa Alneamat saw a photo of her missing sister online. She was wearing a headscarf – unlike when the Yazidi teenager was last seen as she was abducted by militants from the so-called Islamic State – and she was older, but Alneamat immediately recognised a birthmark on her sister’s face, and her eyes. Staring at the picture, which had been posted on social media, Alneamat had no doubt: This was the same sister she had…
