according to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom's annual report for 2015, Yazidis and Christians in Iraq and Syria have endured a 'systematic campaign' of persecution which has included summary executions, forced conversions, rape, sexual enslavement, child abduction, and destruction of houses of worship.
Kelly Ayotte: “according to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom's annual report for 2015, Yazidis and…”
On the recordSeptember 28, 2015
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Ayotte highlights severe persecution faced by Yazidis and Christians in Iraq and Syria.
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