August 2007, three cars and a tanker explode in two Yazidi towns on the periphery of Sinjar. An estimated 796 people are killed. Local Iraqi police and Sunni extremists are suspected of coordinating events. ""We've lost four young ones, one woman and three men......I can't continue. Please, I cannot go on any more. Our lives have been destroyed,"" speaks a survivor. The sect has long-suffered from discrimination, having been labelled as 'devil worshippers' by Muslim neighbours for their quasi-Christian beliefs. Some of the most ancient Christian offshoots risk being wiped out by the intense Islamic fundamentalism now sweeping Iraq.