Former Yazidi sex slaves to ISIS feel suicidal, neglected by world, Amnesty International says

[Sally]

I think many of us women would feel the same if we had to go through what they did.




S/AP October 10, 2016, 12:09 PM
Former Yazidi sex slaves to ISIS feel suicidal, neglected by world, Amnesty International says


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Displaced Yezidis, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar


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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) holds at least an estimated 3,000 women and girls as sex slaves, nearly all of whom come from the minority Yazidi ethnic group, whose home territory of Sinjar in Iraq was overrun by the terrorists in 2014.

A new report from Amnesty International claims those Yazidi women who managed to escape ISIS’ grip are being failed by the international community.


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The report said many of the escapees have been “driven to the brink of suicide or had sisters or daughters who killed themselves because of the appalling abuse they endured in captivity. The suffering of survivors is compounded by their current destitute living conditions, their grief for relatives killed by (ISIS) and their fears for those who remain in captivity.”

The thousands of Yazidi women and children were taken prisoner in August 2014, when ISIS fighters overran their villages in northern Iraq with the aim to eliminate the Kurdish-speaking minority because of its ancient faith. Since then, Arab and Kurdish smugglers managed to free an average of 134 people a month. But by May, an ISIS crackdown reduced those numbers to just 39, according to figures provided by the Kurdistan regional governmen.



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Former Yazidi sex slaves to ISIS feel suicidal, neglected by world, Amnesty International says?

 

[aris2chat]

during war, suicide is often thought of as an option

 

[Manonthestreet]

Finally some real refugees and nobody wants em.......if that doesnt open eyes I dont know what will.....maybe its not about "refugees" and "compassion" at all eh......damning report

 

[The Irish Ram]

And where is the worthless UN? Conjuring up Muslim quotas for the world to accept....

 

[waltky]

More on the barbarity of ISIS...

Yazidi Children Screamed and Cried Outside the Door While ISIS Fighters Raped Their Mothers
October 21, 2016 – As the Islamic State continues its genocide of Yazidis and Christians in Syria and Iraq, a detailed report by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council reveals that Yazidi mothers and their children are brutally persecuted – mothers sold and re-sold as sex slaves, children murdered, and children traumatized from being forced to listen behind locked doors as their mothers are raped and beaten.

One Yazidi woman who was sold seven times to ISIS fighters said, “When he would force me into a room with him, I could hear my children screaming and crying outside the door. Once he became very angry. He beat and threatened to kill them. He forced two of them to stand outside barefoot in the snow until he finished with me.” An ISIS fighter killed the children of a Yazidi woman who was sold three times as a sex slave. When she asked him, “What did you do to them?” he beat her and said, “They are kuffar [non-Muslim] children. It is good they are dead. Why are you crying for them?” The U.N. report from June, They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes Against the Yazidis, explains the Islamic State’s attacks on Yazidi villages in Sinjar in August 2014 and the subsequent (and ongoing) genocidal actions taken by ISIS to destroy the Yazidi people.

The report is based on 45 interviews with survivors, religious leaders, doctors and journalists. An estimated 5,000 Yazidis have been killed, so far, by the Islamic State. “ISIS has sought to destroy the Yazidis through killings, sexual slavery, enslavement, torture and inhuman and degrading treatment and forcible transfer causing serious bodily and mental harm,” states the report. “The genocide of the Yazidis is ongoing,” says the U.N. “Over 3,200 Yazidi women and children are still held by ISIS. Most are in Syria where Yazidi females continue to be sexually enslaved and Yazidi boys, indoctrinated, trained and used in hostilities. Thousands of Yazidi men and boys are missing.” A section in the U.N. report on ISIS’s treatment of young children held with their mothers details the brutality of ISIS and the horrific trauma suffered by Yazidi women and their children.

A Yazidi mother and her children.​

Yazidi mothers and their children – boys under 7 and girls under 9 – are sold as a package by ISIS, according to the report. “Hundreds of Yazidi children continue to be transferred around ISIS-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria as their mothers are sold and re-sold.” “Once a Yazidi girl reaches the age of nine, ISIS takes the girl from her mother and sells her as a slave,” states the report. “When a Yazidi boy reaches seven years of age, he too is taken from his mother and sent to an ISIS training camp and from there on to battle. Younger siblings witness these separations, which are almost always accompanied by ISIS fighters beating their mother as she tries to keep hold of her older children.” “ISIS fighters often target younger Yazidi children as a means of punishing their mothers,” reads the report. “In one case, an ISIS fighter killed several children after their mother failed in her escape attempt. He beat her for crying over the death of ‘kuffar children’ before raping her.”

In another case from 2015, an ISIS fighter from Libya bought a Yazidi woman and her children, including a girl aged seven. He kept them in his house in Dayr Az-Zayr. “After loaning the mother to be raped by another ISIS fighter for one night, the Libyan fighter took the 7-year-old girl into a room, locking it behind him,” reported the U.N. “He told her mother, who was screaming at the door, that he wanted to check whether the 7-year-old ‘was ready to be married.’” Many of the women interviewed said they could hear their children “screaming and crying” outside the door while ISIS fighters raped them in a locked room, said the U.N.’s Human Rights Council.

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