Episode 12: Ezidi/Yezidi Children Born of War and Genocide, with Dr. Amy Beam and Farhad Shamo Roto, President of Voice of Ezidis
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When ISIS overtook the Shengal region of northern Iraq in August 2014, it massacred Ezidi men, older women, and older boys and kidnapped women, girls, and young boys. Since then, the Ezidi community has worked tirelessly to locate and rescue the captive women and children and welcome them back into the community. The painful legal and communal question of how to define the belonging of children born of genocidal rape has lingered, causing great hardship to the mothers and children involved as well as to their families and communities.IIn this episode, Irene and Elisa discuss this issue with Dr. Amy Beam, author of The Last Yezidi Genocide, and Farhad Shamo Roto, a Ezidi human rights advocate and survivor of the 2014 genocide. He is also president of Voice of Ezidis, which can be found here.
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