Rian Johnson: Which is why I made Rey’s parents nobodies because I like the idea of somebody coming from nothing and becoming a hero despite having no heroic past.
The situation of the Yazidis in Iraq is of great concern. It is an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe with still close to 400,000 internally displaced scattered throughout the provinces of northern Iraq,“ Lisa Miara, founder of Springs of Hope Foundation, told VOA.
In August 2014, the lslamic State attacked the Yazidi-populated Sinjar mountain, killing thousands of men and taking thousands of women and girls as sex slaves. Yazidis consider the attack one of 74 genocides in their history.
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