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This plea was a speech held in the Iraqi parliament held on Tuesday, 5 August. In the anglophone world, the speech has got a large audience as Cable News Network reported about and furthermore the Washington Post commented on the speech. All the French articles included a YouTube version of Vian Dakhil speech, some with French translations.
The blogpost "Je vous en supplie, frères, faîtes taire vos différences pour sauver les Yézidis!" in the "YOL (routes de Turquie et d"ailleurs) blog" has also a YouTube video of the speech including English subtitles
Après, il vont commencer à mourir en masse ».
In February 2016 she was a speaker at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. She reportedly broke her leg whilst the Iraqi helicopter pilot lost his life, she was mistakenly reported dead on an earlier news report.
Vian Dakhil has been recognised and honoured for her important work in bringing the Yezidi people’s plight to the international community. She was congratulated by the Iraqi Parliament, and honoured by the Iraqi Women's Network in October 2014, and was subsequently awarded the title of the Woman of the Year.
