It's dawn in Sinjar and the only sounds are the footsteps of guards patrolling a golden-domed shrine on a hill overlooking a vista of collapsed ...
SINJAR, Iraq: It's dawn in Sinjar and the only sounds are the footsteps of guards patrolling a golden-domed shrine on a hill overlooking a vista of collapsed rooftops.
"It is in ruins. There has been no progress at all," said Ibrahim Mahmoud Ezzo, 55, the Yazidi owner of about a dozen shops, all of which are damaged."There is no mayor and no local council. People are losing billions of dinars in lost business and property every year, they don't know who to turn to," he said.Overrun by Islamic State in 2014 and liberated by an array of forces the following year, little has been rebuilt and only a fraction of the population has returned.
Sinjar lies in a sensitive area straddling the borders of Iraq's Kurdistan region and neighbouring Syria, Iran and Turkey. At their hilltop post, the PMU guard a shrine with a golden dome that can be seen from many parts of the city. Islamic State had destroyed it along with all other religious landmarks.
"The KRG is not ignoring the problem in Sinjar," he said, urging Baghdad to share responsibility for this area with Peshmerga and ensure the removal of militias including the PMU. "For sure, they are not gone and we will remain in the mountain to offer help and support and we will go wherever needed," he said, standing beside graves bearing names of the dead from Sinjar and neighbouring Syria, Turkey, and Iran.
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