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Persecuted Yazidis Find Sanctuary in Australia

Phil Mercer

   WAGGA WAGGA, Australia --After the horrors of fleeing to Sinjar
   Mountain in northern Iraq to escape Islamic State fighters in 2014,
   several hundred Yazidi refugees are starting new lives in the
   Australian outback.

   Members of the minority religious group have been resettled in a
   handful of regional centers, like Wagga Wagga, to relieve pressure on
   refugee services in Australia's main cities.

   Wagga Wagga is proud of its country roots. It is a farming and
   transport hub halfway between Sydney and Melbourne.

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