To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Help for Yazidis Being Massacred in Iraq
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Yazidis, members of a minority religion in northern Iraq outside Mosul, have been displaced. Between 20 and 40,000 are trapped on the barren mountains outside Sinjar with no food or water for days. Please pressure your congressman to support immediate humanitarian aid to Kurdish areas in Iraq.
Why is this important?
Our family is friendly with a family of Iraqi refugees, member of the Yazidi sect from Sinjar, northern Iraq. They are safe here, but their home town, their friends and families, have fled to the barren mountains, surrounded by murderous ISIS forces, with no food or water. The fate of these people, many of whom have already perished, can only be mitigated by a huge international aid effort. Amnesty International and three dozen charities and faith groups have called on the US Government to cooperate more with the local Kurds to rescue these people. The Kurds supported our government in our "War on Terror" and against Sadaam. We cannot abandon them.
For details see the reports in the NY Times and from Kurdish media in Erbil:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/world/middleeast/isis-forces-in-iraq.html
http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan