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applegrove

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Fri Apr 16, 2021, 05:17 PM Apr 2021

Beekeeper turned spymaster searches for Iraq's missing Yazidis Social Sharing

Beekeeper turned spymaster searches for Iraq's missing Yazidis

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Seven years after Yazidi women and children were kidnapped by ISIS, thousands are still missing

Margaret Evans · CBC News · Posted: Apr 16, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 16

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/yazidi-iraq-syria-isis-1.5989166

"SNIP.....

He hasn't kept bees or sold honey in years and he's no longer living in Sinjar.

But Abdullah Shrem is still known to many as the beekeeper of Sinjar, his ancestral lands in the district of  Sinjar in northwest Iraq. There's even a book titled after him. 

.......

He also recruited a woman who went door to door selling children's clothing. Her access to the women of a household along with her presence of mind made it possible for her to ascertain who was a servant or a slave and who wasn't.

"People say that only men can do this job, but she had the most important role because she could easily go into houses," Shrem said. 

......SNIP"

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