More than a hundred Yazidis sleeping outside Greek refugee camp

For nearly two weeks, some 120 Yazidis have been sleeping on the street after having refused entrance to the Serres refugee camp within the north of Greece, which homes a whole lot of their compatriots.

"We've been sleeping on the bottom for 12 days," says Fahad, 22, sitting exterior the camp.

"Day by day, we implore being allowed to enter the camp. Nobody helps us. We're afraid and we're nowhere to go."

The camp homes a lot of the Yazidi neighborhood in Greece however is not welcoming any further refugees, citing capability issues. Greek officers say they're solely admitting ladies and kids.

"The camp not has place," a Greek supply informed AFP mentioned, beneath the guise of anonymity. 

"There are round 60 beds that can be made obtainable to ladies or kids if essential. However most of those that sleep exterior are younger males."

The Yazidis belong to a Kurdish-speaking minority. In 2014, 1000's fled killings by the so-called Islamic State within the Sinjar mountains, northern Iraq.

A particular UN investigation staff introduced in Could 2021 that it had collected the "clear and convincing proof" that a genocide was dedicated by the jihadists towards the Yazidis.

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