article_snippet: The victims said militants deprived militants of food, water and a place to sit.
article_snippet: ISIS consider a Yazidi sect on Iraq's Mount Sinjar to be devil worshippers and, unlike Christianity and Judaism, the religion is not acknowledged in the Koran.
article_snippet: The majority of the Yazidi community have been made homeless by ISIS, with hundreds massacred and thousands in captivity.
article_snippet: Khanke refugee camp in Iraq has become the home of more than 1,000 Yazidi and Iraqi families - close to 4,000 people.
article_snippet: Other Yazidi kidnapping victims, who do not wish to be identified, said the militants deprived Other Yazidi kidnapping victims, who do not wish to be identified of food, water and even a place to sit .
article_snippet: The survivors’ stories come as United Nations investigators found evidence ISIS are committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq.
article_snippet: The survivors’ stories come as United Nations investigators found evidence ISIS are committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq ISIS the Yazidi minority in Iraq Iraq .
article_snippet: ISIS, which controls a swathe of territory in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, launched a series of systematic and widespread attacks on the Yazidi minority's heartland in the northern Nineveh province last August.
article_snippet: Kurdish peshmerga forces drove back Islamic State militants in north-western Iraq last month, breaking a long siege - but many Yazidi villages remain under ISIS control.
article_snippet: The survivors' stories come as United Nations (UN) investigators found evidence ISIS are committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq.
article_snippet: The report, based on interviews with more than 100 witnesses and survivors between June 2014 and February 2015, highlights brutal ISIS attacks on the Yazidis.
article_snippet: Head of the investigation Suki Nagra said: 'These attacks were aimed at destroying the Yazidi as a group.'
article_snippet: Head of the investigation Suki Nagra added that ISIS was guilty of 'genocide' against the minority.
article_snippet: The report, which was ordered by the UN Human Rights Council last September following a request from the Iraqi government, pointed out that some villages 'were entirely emptied of some villages ' Yazidi population'.
highlights_snippet: ISIS militants consider the Yazidi community to be devil worshippers .
  
highlights_snippet: UN report released yesterday describes torture, rape and murder of Yazidis .