ISIS Sex Slave & Yazidi Survivor, Nadia Murad, Talks About Her Family's Massacre

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ISIS Sex Slave & Yazidi Survivor, Nadia Murad, Talks About Her Family’s Massacre

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February 18, 2016

This is the story of Nadia Murad – a Yazidi woman who was held by ISIS as a sex slave for three months. Currently, this 21-year old is in the UK campaigning to bring solace to Iraq victims and to amalgamate them against ISIS.

Her near and dear kin including her six brothers and her mother were slain at the hands of ISIS. As if holding her hostage and abusing her for sex wasn’t enough!

“For us, the Yazidis, they killed the men and took the women and children. They were committing all kinds; murder, rape and displacing people by force in the name of Islam. Many people may think my story is difficult, but many more had more difficult than mine. They killed six of my brothers, but there are families that have lost 10 brothers,”

“When I speak I didn’t speak just on my behalf, but on behalf of all the women and children affected in the war zone. Two months have passed since I have been campaigning, and people have been happy, not just Yazidis, about this message. About 5,800 Yazidi women and children were captured by the so-called Islamic State. They have killed many people in Iraq and Syria and displaced millions,” she added.

Nadia seeks help for the Yazidis living in refugee camps, and for the scores of women who, due to being considered as infidels by the ISIS, are abducted and sold as sex slaves.

“A year and a half have passed, and the genocide against the Yazidis is continuous. We die every day because we see the world silent in the face of our plight. My mother saw them killing my brothers and then they took my mother and killed her. I was already orphaned as I didn’t have a father; all I had in the war was my mother.”

“But when they took me to Mosul and raped me, I forgot my mother and brothers. Because what they were doing to the women was more difficult than death. Imagine until now, for more than a year and a half, girls as young as nine are being rented and sold out for sex,” Nadia went on to narrate the callous circumstances.

This is as ugly as the face of terrorism gets. Peace and mercy be to the victims.