Gespräch zum Jahrestag des Genozids an Jesidinnen und Jesiden.

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Today we would like to talk about the upcoming tenth

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anniversary of the genocide of Yazidi people.

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And we are talking about more than 5 000

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People killed, out of more than 7 000

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people who were abducted and an additional 100,000,

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driven out of their homeland.

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And on this basis, Germany recognized the genocide of Yazidis in January 2023.

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Do you have the feeling that there is an awareness of this genocide in Germany? It actually varies from region to region.

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In southern Germany, Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia it is more so than in, for example, Lower Saxony, Berlin or eastern Germany, because the more conservative the people are, in my opinion, the more they know about everything that has happened.

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And Baden-Württemberg has a very great experience:

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The first country, first government to help women - officially!

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So when I came to Germany, I said: I am a Yazidi and I told them a little bit. They already knew, so I didn't have to tell them so much.

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Nowadays, you have to tell so much that you are personally persecuted in order to be allowed to stay there at all - without a residence permit.

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It is difficult, I know many, many who just said, we are Yazidis and so

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and the government or the authorities say: Now there is no longer (a danger)

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He could, so to speak, live in Iraq, if not with the Kurds, then with the Shiites then with the Sunnis, Mosul is virtually safe.

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Syria is also partially safe and that is why they do not receive a residence permit.

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I have now read that there is still no solution for the wives of Yazidi women who are in Baden-Württemberg; but there is a number:

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In total, there are 18 husbands in all of these Yazidi women affected by the crime in Baden-Württemberg.

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They have been there for almost 10 years, so before me they are -

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That was - when was the protection program? 2015, so that was almost nine years ago.

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It's a bit ridiculous,

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What they do.

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So I think. Baden-Württemberg has a great program, the program has written its name into history; not just in Germany, but everywhere.

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I think that's great. But the government says: "We are with you." The Prime Minister and those who have completed the program and so on.

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And that is the first point. The second: these women are the best integrated.

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So I have lived in Baden-Württemberg, in Bavaria, in NRW and in Lower Saxony

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And they simply integrated. They learned the language - better than the others.

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It cannot be that a state as rich as Baden-Württemberg does not bring a few men to Germany.

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For example, a family, a mother and two children, came to Germany.

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Two (family members) were in captivity at the time, they were released and travelled to Canada, then two more came and travelled to Australia.

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This means that one family lives in three countries.

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It must be said that there are a few men who, like me, basically emigrated to Germany, so they were not brought back.

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And they came to their families. The social workers in the respective camps or homes

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How should one say this (refugee accommodation)

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They allowed the man to live with the family, that is, with the wife and children.

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And they got residence permits quickly back then.

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So time is, as I said, it is difficult, it is impossible

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So in general this topic is somehow... The government says we're fed up with it. That's also our fault to a minimal extent.

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When was the last time we demanded a law from Baden-Württemberg that we sit down together? Nothing has happened for years.

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When was the last time we, the Yazidi activists, criticized the Germans or the officials for changing anything?

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When did we do a demonstration, when did we make a video about it, when did the families hire lawyers?

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That's all where they say they don't see any movement from our side and neither do we.