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Yazidi bleeding hearts: The fragility of Armenia’s largest ethnic minority
Most of the 100,000 Yazidis from the former Soviet Union consider Armenia to be their homeland.
But in Armenia itself, the community faces a crisis of survival as economic hardship and rural poverty drive them out of the country, writes Lemma Shehadi
- Independent
On a hot and dry September morning, the descendants of three Yazidi villages from the Armavir region in Armenia met at a cemetery on a hill, on the outskirts of the…
Every village has its own annual cemetery festival, which is pegged to the cattle feeding seasons.
“We remember our…