Escaped Yazidi Sex Slaves Tell of Harrowing Abuse by Islamic State

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Escaped Yazidi Sex Slaves Tell of Harrowing Abuse by Islamic State Recently, seventy members of Iraq's Yazidi religious minority escaped a brutal Islamic State (IS) prison after a month of captivity in Mosul, Iraq. Some of those prisoners, including young girls, chose to tell the media about the horrific treatment Yazidis suffered at the hands of IS.

A 14-year-old girl, known as “Narin,” told journalist Mohammed A. Salih her story and how she escaped captivity. IS killed her brother and other young men as they transported the women and girls to a school in Baaj, just west of Mosul. The terrorist group attempted to convert the women, but the women continually refused. The guards then separated the married and unmarried women. Narin and her friend were given to two IS soldiers as wives or concubines in Fallujah. The Washington Post reports:

On our sixth day in Fallujah, Abu Ahmed and the aide left for business in Mosul. Abu Hussein, Shayma’s captor, stayed behind. Around sunset the next evening, he went to the mosque for prayers, leaving us alone in the house. Using our cellphones, we had contacted Mahmoud, a Sunni friend of Shayma’s cousin, who lived in Fallujah, for help. It was too dangerous for him to rescue us from the house, so Shayma and I used kitchen knives and meat cleavers to break the locks of two doors to get out. Wearing traditional long black abayas that we found in the house, we walked for 15 minutes through town, which was quiet for evening prayers. Then Mahmoud came and picked us up on the street and took us to his home.

The two girls stayed at Mahmoud’s house for the night, and a cab driver drove the girls and Mahmoud to Baghdad the next day. The girls remained in traditional dress to remain hidden from prying eyes. Friends provided fake IDs, and the girls boarded a plane to Irbil, the capital of Kurdistan:

I still couldn’t believe we were free until our plane touched the ground. After staying in Irbil overnight at the house of a Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament, Vian Dakhil, we traveled north to Shekhan, to the residence of Baba Sheikh, the spiritual leader of the world’s Yazidis.

After so much fear for so many days, hugging my dad again was the best moment of my life. He said he had cried for me every day since I disappeared. That evening, we went to Khanke, where my mother was staying with her relatives. We hugged and kept crying until then I fainted. My month-long ordeal was over, and I felt reborn.

One 17-year-old girl described her ordeal as a sex slave. Several different men raped her numerous times. The women often begged the men to kill them, just to end the nightmare.

"Our torturers do not even spare the women who have small children with them,” she said. “Nor do they spare the girls - some of our group are not even 13 years old. Some of them will no longer say a word.”

The kids may speak to their parents, “but only to describe in detail the sexual abuse they have to endure every single day.” The girl wanted to die, but she wanted to embrace her parents even more. “They’ve already killed my body,” she said. “Now they’re killing my mind.”

Dauoud Kalu, a member of the Local Council in Ninevah province, said the 70 prisoners who escaped in Mosul include 40 women. They got away after the United States launched air strikes on IS bases. They walked over two days to reach Sinjar, where most were captured. He said the Yazidis are not in good health and that the Islamic State terrorists beat and starved them.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/10/Escaped-Yazidi-Sex-Slaves-Tell-of-Harrowing-Abuse-at-Hands-of-ISIS

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's horrible.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

They got away after the United States launched air strikes on IS bases. They walked over two days to reach Sinjar, where most were captured. He said the Yazidis are not in good health and that the Islamic State terrorists beat and starved them.

These things did not have to happen. There was ample warning to the equivocator in chief, who continually tries to rename the War On Terror an overseas contingency operation, and thinks radical Islam is a JV issue of no concern to the US. He got away with it for six years anyway.

Edited September 11, 2014 by ExExpat

[decocker 7,198]

damn the man.

[GBCW 397]

These things did not have to happen.

Yes, they did. The U.S.A. is not God. We can't stop all evil. That is not in the job description.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Radical islamophobia and utter misinformation are VJ issues, as evidenced by your post.

These things did not have to happen. There was ample warning to the equivocator in chief, who continually tries to rename the War On Terror an overseas contingency operation, and thinks radical Islam is a JV issue of no concern to the US. He got away with it for six years anyway.

Edited September 11, 2014 by JohnR!

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Yes, they did. The U.S.A. is not God. We can't stop all evil. That is not in the job description.

You're a Rand Paul supporter. That's cool, as I also lean mostly toward Libertarian. But, he does not identify with his dad as much as he claims the Republican party.

The case of Yazidi people, was not and is not an all-or-nothing police action choice. In this case the president was either deluded or misinformed when he told the American people and the world that he was leaving Iraq as a safer place:

When President Barack Obama removed the last U.S. forces from Iraq in December 2011, he announced that—as he had planned—the U.S. was leaving behind a “sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government.”

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/flashback-obama-we-re-leaving-behind-sovereign-stable-and-self

The world watched this flawed claim fall apart before its eyes. The president was warned it would happen, and he chose to ignore it.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Perhaps you were not in the US back then, but I can assure you that most Americans supported bringing our troops home. We The People supported Bush when he decided to invade Iraq and We The People supported Obama when he decided to bring our troops home. Right or wrong, We The People were in it together.

The world watched this flawed claim fall apart before its eyes. The president was warned it would happen, and he chose to ignore it.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

This sort of thing is always going on in some part of the world. What often amazes me is that noone realises that this was set in motion by the desire to invade Iraq back in 2003. It's no surprise that Iraq and Syria have fallen into violent anarchy, it was predicted back in 1991. We can complain all we want about it now but the genie is out of the bottle.

Then again, it's not as bad as the Cambodian genocide, which was a direct byproduct of the US bombing of that country during the Vietnam war. And lest we forget, the entire world watched Pol Pot kill millions and did diddly squat about it.

Just like Britain and France in Africa during the 19th century, others are paying the price for America's wars today. That's an uncomfortable truth that noone can lay at Obamas feet, tempting as it may be.

Edited September 11, 2014 by Hail Ming!