“Dead Land”: Nine Years on the Yazidi Genocide and the

Yazidis Scattered Between Missing, Displaced, and Migrants Searching for a Homeland Beside a small tent set up on the ruins of his destroyed mud house in the al-Qahtaniyah district, south of Sinjar (125 km northwest of Mosul), 72-year-old Khalaf sits for hours every day, gazing at the scattered remnants of houses and at the abandoned farmlands. Nothing suggests the presence of life there. Nine years have passed since the Yazidis suffered mass killings at the hands of ISIS militants in Sinjar on August 3, 2014. However, scenes of destruction persist in the city centre and the scattered villages around it,…