Going to the Mountain Top

摘要

In early August a distraught Iraqi Yazidi made an emotional appeal to parliament in Baghdad on behalf of her people-a mostly Kurdish-speaking religious minority group-who had been brutally pushed from their homes by ISIS terrorists and were now isolated and starving on top of a barren mountain in northern Iraq. "An entire religion is being exterminated from the face of the Earth," she said, according to the Washington Post. Almost immediately after the plight of the Yazidi became known, the US began flying humanitarian assistance operations in support of those stranded on the mountain. Air Force C-130s and C-17s dropped thousands of pounds of food and water, as US, coalition, and partner aircraft conducted strikes on the ISIS fighters. Months later, however, there were still many Yazidis calling Mount Sinjar home and despite the humanitarian operations, they still needed help.