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Sinjar
Event Types (Count):
NegTrigger (7)
Negative Trigger
The
Sinjar
massacre
was
the
genocidal
killing
Killing
and
abduction
Kidnapping
of
thousands
of
Yazidi
men
in
Sinjar
(
``
Şingal
''
)
city
and
Sinjar
District
in
Iraq
's
Nineveh
Governorate
by
the
Islamic
terror
group
Islamic
State
of
Iraq
and
the
Levant
(
ISIS
)
in
August
2014
.
The
Sinjar
massacre
was
the
genocidal
killing
Killing
and
abduction
Kidnapping
of
thousands
of
Yazidi
men
in
Sinjar
(
``
Şingal
''
)
city
and
Sinjar
District
in
Iraq
's
Nineveh
Governorate
by
the
Islamic
terror
group
Islamic
State
of
Iraq
and
the
Levant
(
ISIS
)
in
August
2014
.
The
Sinjar
massacre
was
the
genocidal
killing
Killing
and
abduction
Kidnapping
of
thousands
of
Yazidi
men
in
Sinjar
(
``
Şingal
''
)
city
and
Sinjar
District
in
Iraq
's
Nineveh
Governorate
by
the
Islamic
terror
group
Islamic
State
of
Iraq
and
the
Levant
(
ISIS
)
in
August
2014
.
This
event
started
Process_start
with
ISIL
attacking
and
capturing
Sinjar
and
neighboring
towns
on
3
August
,
during
ISIL
's
offensive
in
early
August
2014
.
Dr
Noori
Abdulrahman
,
head
of
the
Department
of
Coordination
and
Follow-up
of
the
Iraqi
Kurdistan
Regional
Government
,
stated
Statement
that
ISIL
's
3
August
campaign
against
Sinjar
was
more
about
demography
and
strategy
than
about
religion
.
The
assistance
of
PKK
and
YPG
enabled
Preventing_or_letting
the
majority
of
the
50,000
Yazidis
who
fled
Escaping
into
the
Sinjar
Mountains
to
be
evacuated
Emptying
.
On
17
December
2014
,
the
Kurdish
Peshmerga
,
PKK
and
YPG
forces
started
Process_start
the
December
2014
Sinjar
offensive
with
the
support
of
US
airstrikes
.
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