Yazidis in Kocho, northwestern Iraq, buried 41 victims of the Islamic State group’s genocide in a ceremony on Thursday. Genocide survivor and Kocho native Nadia Murad said Thursday that 26 men and 15 women were buried in the ceremony. The victims were killed in Kocho, a village in the Yazidi heartland of Sinjar, during IS’ slaughter in the area in 2014, Yazidi NGO Yazda said on Wednesday. IS ripped through parts of Syria and Iraq in the summer of 2014. Yazidis were a particular target of the extremist group because of their non-Islamic faith. Thousands of Yazidis were rounded up, killed, and b…

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