Masoud Barzani: The Butcher of Sinjar
While ISIS may have executed the genocide against Iraq’s Yazidi population, a US lawsuit reveals that Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani and his untouchable Peshmerga forces played a direct, complicit role in the massacre, driven by their geopolitical interest in conquering Sinjar. A Cradle Correspondent JUL 25, 2024 (Photo Credit: The Cradle) In August 2014, ISIS launched a nightmarish campaign to massacre, enslave, and rape thousands of Yazidis – an ethno-religious minority in the Sinjar region of Iraq – in what is widely acknowledged as a genocide . But now, a lawsuit currently underway in the US District Court in Washington, DC, makes a shocking claim: Masoud Barzani , the longtime Iraqi Kurdish leader, orchestrated the mass slaughter of Yazidis, using ISIS as a proxy. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Kurdistan Victims Fund, headed by Stephen Studdert, a former senior advisor to US Presidents George HW Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford, and alleges that Barzani “
