Iraqi MP Fiyan Dakhee Faints As She Tearfully Pleas For Help After ISIS Massacre Of Minority

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One Iraqi-Yezidi member of parliament collapsed after a tearful and feverish speech, urging the government and international forces to help her people

“As we speak there is genocide taking place against the Yezidis. My family is being butchered.” Fiyan Dakhee, a Yezidi member of Iraq’s parliament said in an impassioned speech yesterday, translated by Bloomberg. “‘My family is being butchered.’

‘‘Our women are being used as concubines and sold in the markets. Please save us, Save us.’’

Dakhee said 30,000 families had fled, and had been without food and water for 48 hours, adding that 70 children and 50 elderly Yezidis had already died of thirst and exhaustion in hiding. More than 500 men had already been executed by ISIS she said, her eyes thick with tears. "An entire religion is being exterminated from the face of the earth. Brothers, I appeal to you for the sake of humanity, save us."

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