ISIS slaughtered my Yazidi group. We don’t want your pity — we want justice.

Editor’s Be aware: Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate who advocates for survivors of sexual violence and genocide. She is a United Nations Business office on Drugs and Crime goodwill ambassador and founder of Nadia’s Initiative. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. See additional belief at CNN.



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Feelings and prayers. Promises of “never once again.” They are not more than enough. 7 decades after ISIS dedicated genocide versus the Yazidi community, my ethno-spiritual minority, in Iraq, hundreds of hundreds of men and women continue being internally displaced and more than 2,800 girls and little ones continue to be lacking. Shelter, clean up drinking water, wellbeing treatment and instruction are luxuries, if obtainable at all.

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Nadia Murad

Individuals of us who ended up there – who ran for our life to the protection of Mount Sinjar, who heard the gunshots as adult males and more mature women have been shot and dumped into mass graves, and who, like me, had been sold into sexual slavery – are not able to fail to remember what took place or how the entire world dismissed our cries for assistance.

Soon after escaping from my ISIS captors, I lived in a camp alongside hundreds of Yazidis. I felt the uncooked humiliation of residing in makeshift tents without having privateness, operate, or instruction. I observed these ailments erode our traditions, our way of life, and our communal ties.

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Tucson could ban me, but I don’t like Eegee’s eating places. Here’s why

Eegee's was named the best fast food in Arizona by Food & Wine Magazine. The Tucson chain is known for their Grinder sandwiches, ranch fries and frozen fruit drinks.

In Tucson, everybody has an Eegee’s memory.

For me there were the scorching summer afternoons waiting in the drive-through for a Styrofoam cup of watermelon ice. Sharing a tub of ranch fries with a close friend, attempting not to consume all of them myself. And on the flipside, having a difficult day and halting in the parking lot to cry, and then driving away devoid of even ordering everything.

In The Old Pueblo there’s always an Eegee’s about to decide on you up. The sandwich chain is in practically every single community at this level, with more than 25 places scattered in the course of Arizona’s 2nd major town. Over the earlier 50 years this locally started manufacturer has develop into synonymous with Tucson, a image of the city’s vintage treasures and its raging heat. To criticize Eegee’s is to criticize Tucson alone.

At the threat of remaining labeled a traitor to my previous home, where I lived for 15 a long time, I am here now to criticize Eegee’s.

As the chain begins its 2021 expansion into Gilbert with five total locations across the Valley, I really feel the have to have to notify my Phoenix neighbors the fact: Eegee’s is not normally value the hoopla. Much of the chain’s allure is based mostly on savvy social media marketing and advertising and nostalgia for the experience — and most absolutely not on the sub sandwiches or quickly-meals salads that make up the menu.

Let’s be actual: Eegee’s charm is

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