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Yazidis are said to have burned and looted homes of Muslims in the Iraqi town of Sinjar as revenge for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) brutal slaughter of Yazidis last year.

According to witnesses in Sinjar, the Yazidis were burning homes that had been marked “Sunni” by ISIL after it seized the town in August 2014. Such Muslims had identified Yazidis to the jihadist invaders.

The “Sunni” designation was ISIL’s way of saying the homes should be protected, experts say.

The United Nations has described the massacre of the minority Yazidis in Sinjar as genocide. ISIL considers the Yazidi faith heretical.

Kurdish forces, with support from U.S.-led coalition air strikes, re-claimed Sinjar from ISIL on Nov. 13. Commanders of the Kurdish fighters denied any burning or looting of Muslim homes was taking place.

In January of this year, Amnesty International reported attacks by Yazidi militiamen against two Sunni Arab villages north of Sinjar in which 21 people were killed and a number of homes burned.

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