Olivia Ward

: Many of their male relatives were killed, according to Toronto Star. The terrorist group — also known as ISIS and ISIL — boasts of its conquests on its website, Dabiq. By Olivia Ward Foreign Affairs Reporter7:47 PM, Tues., June 14, 2016 When Daesh attacked their homeland in Iraq Sinjar region in August 2014, thousands of Yazidi women and girls were kidnapped, beaten, raped, tortured and sold as sex slaves. It calls the Yazidis, who belong to a small ancient religious sect, apostates who should be exterminated if they refuse to convert to their extreme version of Islam. Tuesday in Ottawa, Liberal MPs defeated a Conservative parliamentary motion to recognize the assault on the Yazidis and other minorities as genocide, by 166-139. Earlier this month they reportedly burned 19 Yazidi women alive in a cage for refusing sex with their fighters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.