Duhok Khanke camp, Iraq - As news of the invading Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces arrived in Tel Zark, Saeed Hibo told his family that they should leave and take refuge at the nearby Mount Sinjar to the north.
A sense of panic spread quickly that afternoon - August 2, 2014 - as Saeed and a couple of hundred other Yazidi men took their weapons and rushed to the front line. Until just a short while before, the line had been manned by Kurdish Peshmerga forces, but they had retreated in the face of the ISIL assault.
Saeed and his Yazidi neighbours fought into the early hours of the next day but they were outgunned and outmanned, and their resistance seemed doomed to failure
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