A 4 December 2025 Yazda report on an exhumation of eight further mass graves in Siba Sheikh Kheder, Tel Yousifka and other sites across Sinjar and Al Baaj districts, carried out 16 to 27 November 2025, uncovering the remains of at least 42 victims. It gives the cumulative total since exhumation work began in March 2019 as 82 mass graves, 770 sets of remains discovered and 297 victims identified and buried.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability TierReliability tier 2: a Yazidi led documentation organization's own field report on an exhumation it carried out, an informed primary account from an interested advocacy and documentation body rather than an independent government or press source. No stable url could be confirmed at the time of this record, a gap named here rather than guessed at. NotesYazda is the Yazidi community's own documentation and advocacy organization, an interested party, but this specific exhumation was carried out jointly with Iraqi authorities and the International Commission on Missing Persons, so the reported figures describe a documented joint operation rather than a unilateral advocacy claim, and are consistent with the same running total already cited on the entity's existing current status fact. 1 Citation
Publication Year Source Typeorganization primary source 1 Sources
Claims Backed By This Source (2 claims)
This source backs 2 claims across the atlas. As facts: 1 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.
View At A Past Year
The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.