TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shand,Susan
TI  - Sinjar: 14 days that saved the Yazidis from Islamic State 
SN  - 9781493033652
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Guilford, Connecticut
PB  - LP
KW  - IS (Organization)
KW  - Yezidis
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Iraq
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Yezidi women
KW  - Genocide
KW  - United States
KW  - Military relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cries for help -- Before the invasion -- Invasion : Sunday August 3 -- First reactions : Monday August 4 -- Appeals : Tuesday August 5 -- The red line : Wednesday August 6, Thursday August 7 -- America responds : Friday August 8, Saturday August 9 -- The prime minister : Sunday August 10, Monday August 11, Tuesday August 12 -- The mountain is empty : Wednesday August 13, Thursday August 14 -- Kocho : Friday Aug. 15
N2  - How were new Yazidi immigrants working from a Super 8 motel in Maryland able to help defeat the warriors of Islamic State on the battlefield? This is the extraordinary tale of how a few American-Yazidis in Washington, DC, mobilized a small, forgotten office in the American government to intervene militarily in Iraq to avert a devastating humanitarian crisis. While Islamic State massacred many thousands of Yazidi men and sold thousands more Yazidi women into slavery, the U.S. intervention saved the lives of 50,000 Yazidis
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