The 2007 Yazidi massacre was a massacre of Yazidis that took place on April 22, 2007, in Mosul, in northern Iraq.

Massacre

At around 2PM (GMT+3), a bus carrying workers from the Mosul Textile Factory en route to Bashiqa,

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was stopped by cars owned by unidentified attackers. With the bus now stationary, the attackers got on, and checked the passengers' identity cards. According to Iraqi police, after checking their identification, the armed gunmen told the

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passengers to get off the bus. They then drove the bus to eastern Mosul with 23 remaining passengers, all Yazidis, where the hostages were made to lie face down in front of a wall and shot, execution-style.

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According to '' The New York Times'', hundreds of Yazidis from Bashiqa gathered in the street to protest the killings.

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