ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The remains of 22 Yazidis who were buried alive by the Islamic State (ISIS) will be transferred from Mosul to the victims’ homeland in Sinjar on Wednesday.

According to information obtained by The New Region, the families of the murdered individuals, which include several children, will receive their loved ones’ remains at 10 AM on Wednesday, with a burial set to take place the following day in the village of Solagh in the Sinjar district.

The remains consist of four women and 18 men and are currently being held in the Mosul Forensic Medicine Department.

Khairi Ali, head of the Petrichor Organization for Human Rights, announced in mid-July that investigation and identification procedures had been completed and that the remains were ready for repatriation, marking a small step in the ongoing process of uncovering and identifying the victims of ISIS massacres across Iraq.

Iraqi authorities have identified 93 mass graves containing victims of the genocide perpetrated by ISIS against the Yazidi community, of which 55 have been exhumed thus far. Of the 750 bodies that have been recovered, merely 274 of the victims have been identified.

On August 3, 2014, ISIS militants seized control of the Yazidi heartland of Sinjar, launching a brutal campaign of killings, abductions, genocidal rape, and forced conversions of members of the ethnoreligious minority group.

More than 5,000 Yazidis were killed in the ISIS campaign, and over 6,000 others, mostly women and children, were abducted and sold into sexual slavery. Thousands of abducted Yazidis still remain missing.

Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader and former Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani in early August said that the ISIS atrocities against the Yazidi community “surpassed all boundaries of cruelty and savagery, and caused a pain that will never be erased from our memory.”