From YezidiTruth.org:
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[ http://www.yeziditruth.org/please_help_the_yezidis ]
The Yezidis are urgently in need of your help.
Since April, 2007, when 23 of them were murdered by Iraqi Moslems,
the Yezidis have been in crisis. On August 14th, Moslem suicide
bombers claimed over 500 innocent Yezidi lives in their Northern Iraq
homeland. Although not reported by the media, innocent Yezidis are
being murdered by Moslem extremists almost daily. Food caravans are
continually intercepted by Moslems and not able to reach the Yezidi
villages; the Yezidis are not able to visit their families in Moslem
controlled areas; and the Yezidis have not been able to purify their
water system since it was poisoned years ago by Saddam Hussein.
They need your help!
[. . .]
Join together with others around the world to create a sustainable
relief organization for the Yezidis.
Please contact:
Mark Amaru Pinkham
PMB 330
51 Bell Rock Plaza, Suite A
Sedona, Arizona 86351
928-284-1429
gnostictemplars@aol.com
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I have been trying to find some way of helping the Yezidi people ever
since August 15, 2007, the day after the Nineveh province of Iraq was
bombed. On that day, records say that anywhere from 400 to 600
innocent Yezidi civilians were killed. This is the worst single
tragedy of the Iraq War so far.
This event first came to my attention on August 15 when an
anchorwoman on CNN mentioned that a "Kurdish religious minority had
just been brutally attacked in Iraq." I knew right away what Kurdish
religious minority she was talking about, but I was damned if I could
find any more information about it on TV. So I logged onto the
Internet and contacted everybody I could find who might know a way to
help the Yezidi. I even contacted several relief organizations in the
interest of donating food, money and/or clothes, but each of them had
retreated from the Nineveh area because things were just getting so
crazy there.
So imagine my excitement when I logged onto the Internet today, three
months later, and discovered this new website, YezidiTruth.org.
Apparently I must not have been the only American emailing people
like crazy about this matter in August. It appears that there are
some relief organizations that are now prepared to help the Yezidi
survivors in Iraq, but they can't do it alone. Those poor people are
never going to get any help if more Americans don't start thinking
about them.
Since we're the ones responsible for setting up Iraq's new
government, we ought to be responsible for making sure that it does
what it's supposed to do. And one of the things that any good
democracy should have is the Freedom of Religion. Yezidis are denied
this freedom to the extreme. If they and other Iraqi religious
minorities are ever to enjoy the same freedoms that we have here in
the States, it will be up to us to make it happen.
I just finished writing a letter to Congress and to my state Senator
about this matter, in the hopes that other people will do the same. I
do not feel it would be wrong of me to encourage others to do this.
Even if you are poor and cannot afford to donate anything to a relief
organization, please contact your local politicians at the very
least. These people are being slaughtered, and we have to make it
STOP!
- Amity
The Peacock's Nest
http://www.geocities.com/amityvilleghost
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