Alwaght- Iraqi forces have discovered two mass graves in Sinjar city of Nineveh province, which contain the bodies of 90 Yazidis.
A local source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said government troops, supported by fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) unearthed on Saturday morning the mass graves in already ISIS-held town, Arabic-language al-Ghad Press news agency reported.
The victims apparently came from the nearby villages of Mujamma al-Jazirah and al-Qabousiyah.
The grisly findings were made only three days after a mass grave containing the remains of at least 50 people was found in Sinjar.
On November 27, Iraqi army forces uncovered a Yazidi mass grave in al-Ba'aj town, which was under control of ISIS terrorist group until June this year. It contained the bodies of 98 people.
A week earlier, government forces had found a mass grave containing the bodies of 73 people, including women and children, executed by ISIS in Rambussi area near the town of Qahtaniyah, located about 100 kilometers from Mosul.
Back in August 2014, ISIS overran Sinjar, killing, raping, and enslaving large numbers of Yazidi Kurds.
Sinjar was recaptured in November 2015, during an operation by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Yazidi fighters.
The Office of Kidnapped Affairs in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk said earlier this year that around 3,500 Yazidi Kurds were still being held captive by ISIS, adding that a large proportion of the abductees were women and children.
The Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government announced in early August that ISIS’ genocide against Yazidis had forced nearly 360,000 members of the minority group to flee their hometowns, and that another 90,000 had left Iraq and taken refuge in other countries.
It added that Daesh terrorists had kidnapped 6,417 Izadi Kurds, including 1,102 women and 1,655 children, since 2014.
