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8/10/2014
“They’re terrified and exhausted,” @moises_saman photographs Yazidi refugees in Iraq @TIME http://t.co/QbhesLzvgZ pic.twitter.com/r0cpYuJxB5
— Patrick Witty (@patrickwitty) August 11, 2014
Related: Iraq crisis: 150,000 Yezidi Kurds refugees surrounded by Islamic extremists
Thousands of Yazidi Kurds, including children, have been trapped in the mountains without food and water for days as a major international intervention gets under way
Iraqi Officials Say US Aid Drops to Dying Yazidis Exploding Uselessly on Impact
This comes from a UK journalist embedded with the Iraqi military. I wouldn’t treat it as final. Some other reports really raise questions about the 70% number and even the quotes in his own account don’t lead me to believe that such a huge number have died.
But it’s safe to say that quite a few are dead…
