Kodscho

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Kodscho
location
Kodscho (Iraq)
Kodscho
Kodscho
Coordinates 36 ° 11 ′  N , 41 ° 55 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 11 ′  N , 41 ° 55 ′  E
Country IraqIraq Iraq
Governorate Ninawa
District Sinjar
Basic data
Residents 2,000 (before the IS massacre)
mayor Ahmed Jassim

Kodscho (also Kocho , Arabic كوجو Kaudschu , DMG Kauǧū , Kurmanji كوجو Koço ) is a Yezidi village in the disputed areas of northern Iraq . It is located in the Sinjar district , south of the Jabal Sinjar and about 20 to 25 km southwest of the capital of the same name ( Sinjar ) of the district in the Ninawa governorate . The village gained international fame in 2014 through the genocide of the Islamic State against the Yazidis.

history

Like the entire Sinjar region, Kodscho is one of the disputed areas in Northern Iraq . According to Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution , a referendum should determine the status of the village and the fate of the residents. The village has been occupied by Kurdish Peshmerga troops since 2003, and they fled the village on August 2, 2014. The following day, the Islamic State took total control of the village. On May 25, 2017, Iraqi forces and Yazidi militias liberated the village from IS.

population

Only Yazidis lived in Kodscho; these were mostly farmers and sheep breeders, if not all. The first Yazidi families settled in this area in the mid-1950s, previously it was inhabited by Sunni Arabs. However, the Yazidis hired a lawyer and bought the land and later founded a village by the mayor's father Ahmed Jassim.

Massacre of Yazidis from Kodscho

On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State committed genocide against the Yazidis who lived there. The massacre could only take place because the Kurdish Peshmerga had fled ISIS and left the Yazidis defenseless. The Islamic State locked the Yazidis in the village for 12 days and gave them a three-day ultimatum to convert to Islam. Otherwise he would kill them all. Because the Yazidis refused, the massacre took place on August 15, 2014. IS separated the men from the women and children and took them to the secondary school in the village, where they had to hand over cell phones and jewelry. An estimated 1826 Yazidis lived in the village of Kodscho. The Islamic State beheaded around 600 Yazidi men, some were shot or burned alive. The bodies, as well as some people who were still alive, were thrown into mass graves. The IS then abducted over 1,000 Yazidi children and women from the village. The boys under the age of 14 were taken to IS military camps, where they were trained to become IS terrorists; the Yazidi women and girls were kept as slaves and sexually abused. Previously, 90 Yazidis (including twelve-year-old boys) were shot dead by IS terrorists on August 3, 2014 in the neighboring village of Qiniyeh .

So far, six mass graves have been found in Kodscho . This is a quarter of the known mass graves in Sinjar. (As of June 2016). On March 15, 2019, the exhumation of the mass graves by UN investigators began.

Personalities

See also

literature

Individual evidence

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