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Yazidi children still haunted by Islamic State, Amnesty International says
Large numbers of Yazidi children are still displaced

Yazidi children still haunted by Islamic State, Amnesty International says

Amnesty International says children of the Yazidi religious and ethnic minority who survived brutal captivity at the hands of the Islamic State group in Iraq are suffering severe physical and mental health problems.

Many Yazidi children were killed when IS overran their homeland in 2014.

Almost 2,000 known to have survived are not getting the care they need.

Amnesty says the children have been all but abandoned and are in desperate need of long-term support.

When IS stormed into their ancestral heartland in northern Iraq, the Yazidis fled to Mount Sinjar.

Many were killed and some 7,000 women and girls were seized and enslaved. Many of them were raped.

Some of the boys lost limbs in battle, while some girls who were raped may never be able to have children.

Amnesty is calling for enslaved Yazidi women who had the babies of IS fighters to be resettled with their children abroad.

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