As for Zahra, she found shelter in the home of a nearby relative. But she couldn’t stand not knowing what had happened to her family whom she had left at the mercy of very angry fighters. So, still wearing the same black clothing she had on the night of the attack, she returned to her village to search for her husband and two young sons. She eventually found their burnt corpses in one of the houses in the village that had been set on fire.
Spanish news agency, EFE, reports that an estimated 1,200 locals were forced out of their homes at gunpoint and that most of them were members of “the tribal clans of al-Jahish”.
“A tribal conflict took place a few weeks ago between al-Jahish clans and Yazidi fighters, after both parties accused each other of causing the displacement of the Yazidi population,” the agency also reported.
Because of the smoke rising from the two towns, other nearby locals saw there was something going on. But when they tried to approach the villages the armed men fired their guns; ten of the would-be rescuers were wounded.
“The looting and the vandalism continued for two long days,” says Majid Ali, who lives in one of the nearby villages and who is also a member of the same tribe that was attacked; a third village was also attacked. “We saw how they robbed all the cars, took the livestock and anything they could move. Cars were being driven from the two Arab villages full of the things they’d taken,” Ali told NIQASH.
During one of the nights, some of the members of the tribe managed to get into the villages that were attacked. They found unburied dead – including women, children and elderly people who had been executed, then burned. The attackers hadn’t buried the dead because they were afraid of being attacked themselves, Ali says.
Two days later, things had became clearer. The number of dead in three neighbouring villages amounted to 25 and there were 50 missing locals, according to news published by one of the tribal elders on social networking pages.
The yezidis took them so they can trade back their people, stop with "revenge" bullshit, an yezidi have never done anyone something bad and never will.