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Doctor Honored for Helping Yazidis Calls for Justice

Thomson Reuters Foundation

   TBILISI - Yazidi families would not feel safe returning to their homes
   in Iraq until Islamic State militants accused of atrocities against the
   religious minority face justice, according to a doctor awarded Saturday
   for his work with Yazidi women and children.

   Mirza Dinnayi, a Yazidi activist named the winner of the Aurora
   humanitarian prize for helping 1,000 Yazidi women and children seek
   medical treatment in Europe, said prosecutions were key to help the
   "completely traumatized" community.

   "Yazidis need to trust the authorities in Iraq in order to establish
   peace and make a process of reconciliation and transitional justice.
   This has not happened," Dinnayi said.

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