The move by parliamentarians on Thursday condemned “indescribable atrocities” and “tyrannical injustice” carried out by ISIL fighters “with the intention of completely wiping out the Yazidi community”.Greens lawmaker Max Lucks said Germany was home to what is believed to be the world’s largest Yazidi diaspora of about 150,000 people, meaning the country had a particular responsibility to the community.Our silence cost lives.”‘Abducted, enslaved, raped’The resolution said the chamber “recognises the crimes against the Yazidi community as genocide, following the legal evaluations of investigators from the United Nations”.I cannot let go of their pain.”The Yazidi communityMirza Dinnayi, head of Air Bridge Iraq, an NGO helping victims who live in Germany, said the motion was “pioneering” to address “the consequences of the genocide”.The Yazidis are an ancient religious minority in eastern Syria and northwest Iraq that ISIL viewed as supposed devil worshippers for their faith that combines Zoroastrian, Christian, Manichean, Jewish and Muslim beliefs."