'We want to show the world what happened to us': London Yazidis remember genocide at Victoria Park rally

In many ways,Faiza Qasimis a typical 15-year-old.

She attendsMontcalm Secondary School, she does volunteer work and she's working on her high school diploma.

As a member of London's 400-strong Yazidi community, she's also a survivor of genocide.

Ithappened in August 2014 at the hands of ISIS when themilitant Islamic group staged anattack on Sinjarin northern Iraq.

The attacks against the Yazidis a religious minority were brutal. A United Nations report declared that theslaughter, sexual slavery, indoctrination and other crimes committed against the 400,000 Yazidi amounted to genocide.

Yazidismostly reside in northern Iraq and practice a religion that has elements of Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism. Branded as devil worshippers by some Muslims, including ISIS militants, the community has faced persecution for centuries.

In the 2014 attack, Qasim'sfather, grandfather, younger sister and three uncles were taken away and remain missing.

"We want to remember our missing family members and we want to show the worldwhat happened to us and we want to make sure that doesn't happen to us again," she said Monday.

Qasimspoke to CBC News ahead of a rallyatVictoria Park where the community gathered to remember those missing and to press the Canadian government to help find them.

Some 1,200 Yazidis came to Canada in 2017, and about a quartersettled in London.

Qasimsaid the plight of the Yazidi people is not well known, something she hopes to change.

"Some of the people, when I met them in school, when I say I'm a Yazidi from Iraq, the don't know what Yazidi are," she said.

"My father, my three uncles and my grandpa ... we don't know anything about them. Hopefully they can find them and we can see each other again."