Today in Nineveh the stories of two ancient communities rang out as a rebuke to the international community and its failure to protect and prevent genocide and to punish those responsible. Yazidi and Christian leaders told me “what happened to us was beyond imagination”

Oct 2, 2020 | News

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Very sad news that the Baba Sheikh – the spiritual leader of the Yazidis – whom I met a few months ago – has died. May he rest in peace.

For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.

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