Yazidis are an ancient community on the verge of extinction. Several members of this community visited me here in the US and pleaded for help to rescue the people from the ISIS onslaught. Christians, Yazidis and Kurdish Shias are languishing in camps that have very little amenities, in Erbil, Duhok and Khazir. Art of Living has rescued and rehabilitated a 15 year old girl victim of gang-rape and we are rescuing many other women who are trapped and are being sold by ISIS for as little as $10. Food, water and other basic needs are being distributed in the camps. I have planned to visit these relief camps soon.
I would also like to invite anyone who speaks the Kurdish or
Arabic language and who’d like to help to contact my secretariat (Vishal
Merani vishal.merani@artofliving.org).
7000 Yazidi girls from ages 9-35 years have been taken captive by the ISIS. Words cannot express the courage and conviction with which our volunteers have traveled to the Sinjar Mountains to rescue people who are trapped there.
Yazidis who were a community of 23 mi have been reduced to 1 mi over the years. This is the one of the worst genocides of the 21st century. Thousands are trapped in the mountains with no food or water. Art of Living is engaged in relief work. I urge the governments of Europe, America and India to save the thousands of Yazidis trapped in the Sinjar Mountains.
7000 Yazidi girls from ages 9-35 years have been taken captive by the ISIS. Words cannot express the courage and conviction with which our volunteers have traveled to the Sinjar Mountains to rescue people who are trapped there.
Yazidis who were a community of 23 mi have been reduced to 1 mi over the years. This is the one of the worst genocides of the 21st century. Thousands are trapped in the mountains with no food or water. Art of Living is engaged in relief work. I urge the governments of Europe, America and India to save the thousands of Yazidis trapped in the Sinjar Mountains.
- by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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