Êzidî Free Women's Movement (TAJÊ) Diplomacy Committee is carrying out various activities due to the approaching anniversary of the 3 August 2014 Yazidi massacre. TAJÊ sent a letter to 18 countries and the Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres to recognise the massacre as genocide.

 

The letter stated the following:

 

"Eleven years have passed since the 74th genocide, but the wounds have not yet been healed and the tragedy has not yet been overcome.

 

Some 2,900 Yazidis, mostly women and children, are still being held captive by ISIS mercenaries. The fate of hundreds remains unknown. Dozens of mass graves are still awaiting exhumation, and new mass graves continue to be discovered.

 

In 11 years, 14 countries have recognized the August 3 onslaught as genocide. As the Yazidi Women's Freedom Movement, we have prepared a comprehensive file on the August 3, 2014 genocide. We are presenting to you a file containing documents and information proving that what the Yazidi people in Shengal experienced was genocide. We urge you to fulfill your humanitarian duty and responsibility and officially recognize the slaughter as genocide.  

 

As Yazidi women, we organized ourselves in 2015 under the name Yazidi Women's Council to prevent the massacre of women and our community following the 2014 genocide. We built our organization in response to the genocide targeting Yazidi women and the Yazidi community. We expanded our efforts to empower women and enable them to protect themselves from attacks and genocides. In 2016, we established the Yazidi Women’s Freedom Movement (TAJÊ) through a congress we organized. As the Yazidi women in Shengal, we continue our work.”

 

The letter was sent to the following: 

 

Presidency of South Africa

 

State Protocol of Italy

 

Office of the President of Bulgaria and Office of Diplomatic Relations

 

Office of the President of the Slovak Republic

 

President of Slovenia

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France

 

President of the Republic of Finland

 

President of the Republic of Cyprus

 

President of the Republic of Croatia

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malta

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary

 

President of Austria

 

President of Greece

 

Prime Minister of Spain

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China

 

Office of the President of India

 

Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt

 

Lithuania

 

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres