Ezidi refugees mark decade of surviving ISIS massacres

Refugee advocate Salam Qaro, now in Armidale, remembers the terror inflicted by ISIS a decade ago. (HANDOUT/SALAM QARO)

In a packed auditorium with tears rolling down his cheeks, Ezidi genocide survivor Fawas Safil has recounted being buried alive in Iraq when militant group Islamic State trapped the religious minority a decade ago on a mountain.

"My name is Fawas Safil. I survived the mass graves on August 3, 2014," he said at a commemoration in Armidale held to mark 10 years since the mass atrocities took place.