His paintings show gruesome scenes of men being slaughtered and women
raped; of fighters choosing and buying women that are undressed in front
of them. Yezidi painter Ammar Salim, 31, is working on a project to
tell the world what ISIS has done to his people.
In a series of nine canvasses, he paints a realistic picture of the
tragedy that befell the Yezidi minority in Iraqi Kurdistan at the hands
of ISIS in a style reminiscent of some European painters of the Middle
Ages, who also packed their paintings with characters and scenes.
“I want to connect all that happened, to explain about the Yezidi
genocide,” he said, walking from one painting to another in the small
motel room in the Kurdish city of Duhok that is now his studio.
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