The arrest of the leader of a Winnipeg organization that helps traumatized Yazidi victims of ISIS has shocked many.
She thought she was safe in the Manitoba capital, and then last summer, she allegedly became the victim of sexual assault at the hands of a leader of her own community. Hadji Hesso Hesso has rubbed shoulders with federal cabinet ministers and MPs, and attended an array of galas. The day after he was charged with sexual assault, he was spotted at the Mayor’s Ball.
But in an interview at her family’s Winnipeg home, the alleged victim told her story of war, displacement and claims of re-victimization in her adopted country. The terrorist group executed thousands of men, took boys away to be trained as fighters and abducted women and girls to Syria, where they were forced to service ISIS men.
When they arrived in Winnipeg, local Yazidis helped them get settled. “They helped us to find a house and a school and everything,” she said.Yazidi Association of Manitoba The co-author of a federal government-contracted study on Yazidi refugees, Wilkinson said the group needed distinct support because they were arriving in Canada so soon after the genocide committed by ISIS, also known as DAESH.“Most refugees have been traumatized in some way, but for the Yazidi women in particular, but also some of the kids, they were brought here at a time psychologists would call an acute level of trauma, it just happened.
But according to the Manitoba government, Hesso’s group was dissolved in 2023, after it failed to file annual returns for two consecutive years. “We were not aware they were struck off the corporate registry,” said executive director Abdikheir Ahmed. “We will be amending our procedures on a go-forward basis.Alleged unwanted touchingIraqi Yazidi women mourn relatives at commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Yazidi genocide in Sinjar, Iraq, Aug. 3, 2024. .
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