Lalish Temple, Iraqi Kurdistan (CNN)"Goodbye," a woman dressed in a black shawl murmured in Kurdish, as she kissed the outstretched hand of an elderly cleric.
"Pray for me," said the next woman in line, as she bowed her head and kissed the old priest's hand.
This
was a farewell ceremony for 66 women and children who had all been
former captives of the armed Islamist movement known as ISIS.
Most
of those gathered here suffered unspeakable crimes at the hands of the
jihadi militants. And all of the victims were Yazidis, members of an
ancient ethnic and religious minority whose future in Iraq is now in
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