Mount
Sinjar stinks of death. The few Yazidis who have managed to escape its
clutches can tell you why. “Dogs were eating the bodies of the dead,”
said Haji Khedev Haydev, 65, who ran through the lines of Islamic State
jihadists surrounding it.
On Sunday night, I became the first
western journalist to reach the mountains where tens of thousands of
Yazidis, a previously obscure Middle Eastern sect, have been taking
refuge from the Islamic State forces that seized their largest town,
Sinjar.
Displaced Yazidi people rush towards an aid helicopter (RUDAW)
