Will Nadia Murad’s Nobel Prize help Iraqi minorities?
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad has raised expectations and hopes for Iraqi minorities, and Yazidis in particular, to prevent suppression against them and to win their rights.
BAGHDAD — Nadia Murad, the Iraqi Yazidi, has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. This has raised the expectations and hopes of Iraqi minorities, especially Yazidis, since she is the first Iraqi to win the prize.
Iraqi political leaders welcomed the award as a tribute to the struggle of the Iraqi people against terrorism and extremism.
Iraqi President Barham Salih called Murad on Oct. 5 to congratulate her on the award. The president said the prize was a tribute to the Iraqis' struggle and steadfastness.
Prime Minister-designate Adel Abdul Mahdi congratulated Murad in an official statement. “I congratulate Iraq and Iraqis and the Yazidi brothers and sisters and I congratulate Nadia Murad for being awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. She is the Iraqi Yazidi activist, the goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking, one of the victims of terrorism, infidelity, mass murder, captivity and assault on the dignity and the right to life.”
