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devil worshippers: Islamic State militants had launched a campaign of terror against a minority they considered apostates and "devil worshippers." By the time it ended, some 300,000 Yazidis would be forced to flee, up to 5,000 massacred and 7,000 girls and women kidnapped as sex slaves, according to Hamilton Spectator. Hasoon, who worked for the Netherlands ministry of justice, was in the Sinjar region for a family visit when the onslaught began. What followed was a bloodbath that would engulf the homeland of the ancient Yazidi religion in northwestern Iraq. He made a nightmarish 10-day escape on foot. Their plan is the same: take the women and execute the men. He is now an adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government, gathering evidence that the self-styled Islamic State had committed genocide in an effort to eradicate the Yazidis. "It has all the characteristics of genocide," he said, on a scratchy line from Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. "They have followed the same methods in different places. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.