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On Location Video: The Yazidi men and boys who survived an Islamic State execution
In village after village last month in Iraq, the Islamic State killed scores of Yazidi men. A few lived to tell about it.
Firas, a Yazidi, survived an execution attempt by the Islamic State.
Tracey Shelton
ZAHKO, Iraq — On Aug. 3, the Islamic State began a military push to take the Iraqi town of Sinjar and its surrounds. In village after village, men from Yazidi tribes were killed or captured, and women and children kidnapped.
On Aug. 11, fighters entered the village of Kocho. This is the story of what happened next.