Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A retrospective household survey

1. Amnesty International. Ethnic cleansing on a historic scale: Islamic State’s systematic targeting of minorities in Northern Iraq. Amnesty International Report; 2014. https://www.es.amnesty.org/uploads/media/Iraq_ethnic_cleansing_final_formatted.pdf

2. Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. “Our Generation is gone.” The Islamic State’s targeting of Iraqi minorities in Ninewa. Bearing Witness Trip Report; 2015. https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/Iraq-Bearing-Witness-Report-111215.pdf

3. OHCHR. “They came to destroy”: ISIS Crimes Against the Yazidis. A/HRC/32/CRP.2; 2016. http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoISyria/A_HRC_32_CRP.2_en.pdf

4. EKurd Daily. Iraqi Kurdistan says 400,000 Yazidi Kurds were displaced from Sinjar district. EKurd Daily; 2015. http://ekurd.net/400000-displaced-yazidi-kurds-in-kurdistan-2015-08-05

5. Maisel S. Social Change Amidst Terror and Discrimination: Yezidis in the New Iraq. The Middle East Institute Policy Brief. 2008;18. https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/90905/No_18_Social_Change_Amidst_Terror.pdf

6. Yazda and Free Yazidi Foundation. ISIL: Nationals of ICC states parties committing genocide and other crimes against the Yazidis. Requesting the commencement of a preliminary examination in the situation involving genocide and other crimes committed against the Yazidis in Sinjar and Nineveh Plain. Report submitted to the Office of the ICC Chief Prosecutor in The Hague; 2015. https://www.yazda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/RED-ISIL-commiting-genocide-against-the-Yazidis.pdf

7. REACH. Displacement from Sinjar, 3–14 August 2014. REACH Overview Report; 2014. http://www.reach-initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/REACH_IRQ_InternalDisplacement_Briefing_August2014_Sinjar.pdf

8. Board of Relief and Humanitarian Affairs. Report on IDP camps in Duhok. BRHA Report; 2015. http://www.brha-duhok.org/wp-content/uploads/Report%20on%20the%20IDP%20camps%20in%20Dohuk-June%202015.pdf

9. Kurdistan Regional Government. More than 300 thousand displaced Yezidi Kurds in Kurdistan Region. KRG Press Release; 2014. http://cabinet.gov.krd/a/d.aspx?s=040000&l=12&a=52545

10. EKurd Daily. One doctor for 10,000 people in Iraq’s Yazidi Mount Sinjar. EKurd Daily; 2015. http://ekurd.net/one-doctor-for-10000-people-in-iraqs-yazidi-mount-sinjar-2015-01-13

11. Sidky M, Rummery A. UNHCR steps up aid as Yazidis stream into Syria from Iraq's Mount Sinjar. Dobbs L, editor. UNHCR; 2014. http://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/latest/2014/8/53ecb7a29/unhcr-steps-aid-yazidis-stream-syria-iraqs-mount-sinjar.html

12. Daloglu T. How will Turkey react to stream of Kurdish refugees? Al Monitor; 2014. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/turkey-syria-iraq-kobani-isis-kurds-pkk.html

13. OHCHR. Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Iraq in the light of abuses committed by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and associated groups. A/HRC/28/18; 2015. http://dag.un.org/bitstream/handle/11176/310221/A_HRC_28_18-EN.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

14. UNAMI/OHCHR. A call for accountability and protection: Yezidi survivors of atrocities committed by ISIL. UNAMI/OHCHR Report; 2016. http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/IQ/UNAMIReport12Aug2016_en.pdf

15. Spiegel PB, Salama P. War and mortality in Kosovo, 1998–99: An epidemiological testimony. Lancet. 2000;355 : 2204–2209. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02404-1 10881894

16. Grein T, Checchi F, Escribè JM, Tamrat A, Karunakara U, Stokes C, Brown V, Legros D. Mortality among displaced former UNITA members and their families in Angola: a retrospective cluster survey. BMJ. 2003;327 : 1–5.

17. Depoortere E, Checchi F, Broillet F, Gerstl S, Minetti A, Gayraud O. Violence and mortality in West Darfur, Sudan (2003–05): Epidemiological evidence from four surveys. Lancet. 2004;364 : 1315–1320. 15474133

18. Coghlan B, Brennan RJ, Ngoy P, Dofara D, Otto B, Clements M, Stewart T. Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A nationwide survey. Lancet. 2006;367 : 44–51. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)67923-3 16399152

19. Roberts L, Lafta R, Garfield R, Khudhairi J, Burnham G. Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: Cluster sample survey. Lancet. 2004;364 : 1857–1864. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17441-2 15555665

20. Burnham G, Lafta R, Doocy S, Roberts L. Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: A cross-sectional cluster sample survey. Lancet. 2006;368 : 1421–1428. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69491-9 17055943

21. Alkhuzai AH, Ahmad IJ, Hweel MJ, Ismail TW, Hasan HH, Younis AR, Shawani O, Al-Jaf VM, Al-Alak MM, Rasheed LH, Hamid SM, Al-Gasseer N, Majeed FA, Al Awgati NA, Ali MM, Boerma JT, Mathers C. Violence related mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006. NEJM. 2008; 358 : 484–493. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa0707782 18184950

22. Hagopian A, Flaxman AD, Takaro TK, Esa Al Shatari SA, Becker S, Levin-Rector A, Galway L, Hadi Al-Yasseri, Weiss WM, Murray CJ, Burnham G. Mortality in Iraq associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation: Findings from a national cluster sample survey by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study. PLoS Med. 2013;10(10):e1001533. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001533 24143140

23. Heeringa SG, West BT, Berglund PA. Applied survey data analysis. London: CRC Press; 2010.

24. Hinde J, Demetrio CG. Overdispersion: models and estimation. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 1998;27(2):151–70.

25. Hicks MH, Dardagan H, Guerrero Serdan G, Bagnall PM, Sloboda JA, Spagat M. Violent deaths of Iraqi Civilians, 2003–2008: Analysis by perpetrator, weapon, time, and location. PLoS Med. 2011;8(2):e1000415. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000415 21358813

26. Yazda. Mass graves of Yazidis killed by the Islamic State organization or local affiliates on or after August 3, 2014. Yazda Documentation Project; 2016. http://www.yazda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Yazda-Report-on-Mass-Graves-Jan-28-2016.pdf

27. Babille M. Statement on child deaths in Iraq. UNICEF Press Centre; 2015. https://www.unicef.org/media/media_74676.html

28. Sherlock R, Malouf C. At least 300 people, mostly children, died on Mount Sinjar, say doctors. The Telegraph; 2014. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11036425/At-least-300-people-mostly-children-died-on-Mount-Sinjar-say-doctors.html

29. Amnesty International. Escaped from hell. Torture and sexual slavery in Islamic State captivity in Iraq. Amnesty International Report; 2014. https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/escape_from_hell_-_torture_and_sexual_slavery_in_islamic_state_captivity_in_iraq_-_english_2.pdf

30. Human Rights Watch. Iraq: ISIS escapees describe systematic rape. Yazidi survivors in need of urgent care. Human Rights Watch Report; 2015. https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/04/14/iraq-isis-escapees-describe-systematic-rape

31. Qasem M, Qirani R. Islamic State trained Yazidi children as soldiers. Al Monitor; 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2015/11/yazidi-children-islamic-state-soldiers.html

32. Klingner J, Silva R. Combining found data and surveys to measure conflict mortality. In: Taylor B, Seybolt TB, Aronson JD, Fischhoff B. Counting civilian casualties: An introduction to recording and estimating non-military deaths in conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2013.

33. OHCHR. Statement by the Commission of Inquiry on Syria on the second anniversary of 3 August 2014 attack by ISIS of the Yazidis; 2016. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20330&LangID=E

34. UN General Assembly. Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. Resolution 260/3; 1948. http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b3ac0.html