What the records say
- When
- Aug 2014
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 5,000
- Coordinates
- 36.37° N, 41.72° E
- Description
- Mass genocide and kidnapping carried out by ISIS
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sinjar massacre, beginning of ISIS attacks resulting in the massacre of over 4,000 Yazidis in Iraq's Sinjar District”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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