Vian Dakhil (Kurdish: ڤیان ده‌خیل, romanized: Viyan Dexîl, born 1971 in Mosul) is a current member of the Iraqi parliament.

[6] In the francophone world it was Tunisian magazine “Kapitalis”,[7] the Algerian participative journal “ChoufChouf” [8] and the “paysagesblog” [9] in le Monde.fr which commented the plea for help of Vian Dakhil for Yazidi people facing extermination.

The blogpost "Je vous en supplie, frères, faîtes taire vos différences pour sauver les Yézidis!"

in the "YOL (routes de Turquie et d'ailleurs) blog" has also a YouTube video of the speech including English subtitles.

[10] In an Interview for Agence France-Presse, distributed by leMonde.fr on 9 of August 2014 she warned that, if help was not arriving immediately – then a massive dying of the Yazidi people would begin – in the French original “« Il ne reste qu'un ou deux jours pour aider ces gens.

She received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights in Vienna, and the Nineveh honorary shield in June 2015.