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Yezidis are fleeing because jihadists told them: Convert to lsIam or we sIaughter you and take your women as sIaves.
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500,000 were forced to leave their homes.
1000s of Yezidis were kilIed and 1000s were captured, ensIaved and raped by the Sunni MusIim militants / ISIS
August 2014.
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Nadia Murad "We were not worth the value of animals.They (ISIS) raped Yezidi girls in groups.They did what a mind could not imagine,"
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August 2014
This is how #Yazidi escaped from the ISIS terrorists in Shingal
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β€œISIS would buy, sell and rape Yezidi girls.I used to know 3 other girls in Hawija β€œ Haifa was kidnapped by ISIS from Shingal.
She was able to escape from Hawija in Iraq and reach her family.
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"I have been sold so many times.
If it was my choice,I wouldn’t do anythng with any man except my husband,but they(lSlS) forced me”
I begged them but they didn’t listen and even tortured those who refused being sIaves”
Yezidi who escaped from ISIS
Yazidis are a religious minority who lived in an uneasy existence with MusIim neighbors in Iraq and Syria.
Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled the August 2014 Genocide in Shingal by lsIamic militants.
7,000 women and girls were captured by the Sunni MusIim terrorists who view Yezidis as devil worshippers.
Yezidi men and older women were kiIled. The younger women and girls were held in captivity for sex.
The United Nations described the massacres of the Yazidis as genocide with @UN investigators estimating that more than 5,000 Yazidis were rounded up and slaughtered in the 2014 attack.
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Investigations have documented horrific accounts of abuse suffered by women and girls.
2713 women and children are believed to remain in IS captivity even after 9 years.
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Nadia Murad was abducted at the age of 21 from the village of Kocho near Shingal, an area home to about 400,000 Yazidis.
She lives in Germany and told of her experience being beaten and sold as a sex slave by ISIS militants in her book "The Last Girl."
A Yazidi woman carrying her child and fleeing from ISIS in Iraq after men were killed in August 2014
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Shami Murad, 61-year-old, was buried by ISIS terrorists in a mass grave with 80 other village women in the village of Kocho/Shingal in August 15, 2014.
Yazidi women sold as sex slaves
Militants from the Islamic State group were trying to sell Yazidi women as sex slaves on social media sites such as Facebook. Some of the women under their captivity were advertised to be sold for up to $8,000.
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"As soon as I close my eyes, I see ISIS terrorists strangling me, I was in a small room, with no windows or lights, drugged by injection or pills, I could hear other women screaming in the building.” Halima, 21-yr-old Yazidi woman, held for 41 months in captivity
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"We were sold from one person to another, something you would not do to another human being. You were just considered property." A Yazidi girl survivor of ISIS captivity.
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It's very difficult what we went through. They tortured us,hit us with their guns,shocked us with electricity.I can't forget those things.I was sold every 3 days, or every week or every month. Many girls captured by ISIS killed themselves." Leila a Yazidi survived ISlS captivity
"ISIS fighters systematically rape Yazidi women and girls as young as nine. There is overwhelming evidence of such rapes occurring from survivors themselves, who display both physical and psychological wounds."
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A Yazidi girl was held by ISIS for over a year during which she was sold 9 times. She attempted to escape, when she was caught, he dragged her back to the house where he & several ISIS terrorists raped and beat her.
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'When lSlS man would force me into a room with him, I could hear my children screaming & crying outside the door. He forced 2 of them to stand outside barefoot in snow until he finished with me.'' A Yazidi woman survivor of lsIamic State Captivity
β€œThey kiIled my father because he refused to renounce his religion.
It was one of the worst moments in my life. They had long beards and short trousers and weapons, I’d never seen such people.” A Yazidi boy, 12, survived of the lsIamic state captivity.
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The elderly who could not flee were massacred. At the town of Ger Zerik hundreds were massacred & buried in a mass grave at center of town. Civilians fleeing on foot were hunted down by IS terrorists in trucks. IS corralled the Yazidi like cattle, using their trucks to prod them.
"I still have flashbacks and sometimes faint 30 times a day," Bahar a Yazidi survivor of lSlS captivity
"I was 10 when the lSlS terrorists kidnapped me.They first took me to Tal Afar in Iraq. Then they separated the women and the men and left children alone. We went through Mosul, Raqqa and Hajin and finally came to Baghouz in Syria." A Yazidi child who rescued from the captivity
Yazidi survivors who escaped from ISIS captivity in Syria describe how they endured brutal rapes, often on a daily basis, and were punished if they tried to escape with severe beatings, and sometimes gang rapes.
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