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Daesh raped Yazidi women.
Yazidi survivor: ‘I was raped every day for six months’ – BBC News
Nearly three years ago, so-called Islamic State fighters swept through northern Iraq, where the country’s oldest ethnic minority was living – the Yazidis.
Many of the men were shot, while the women and children were kidnapped, taken hostage, and raped.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme’s reporter, Fiona Lamdin, has spent a couple of days with a small group of women who have been resettled in Germany and are trying to rebuild their lives.
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Yazidi woman held captive by ISIS on how she was kidnapped at just 14
This month, the Yazidis will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the ISIS massacre, when the extremists killed thousands, and more than 6,000 women and children.
A decade on, few have been held accountable for the horrific killings and torture they suffered, which the UK and many other countries now recognise as a genocide.
Sky News has this exclusive story of the remarkable tale of a young woman kidnapped by ISIS when she was just 14.
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‘Treated like cattle’: Yazidi women sold, raped, enslaved by ISIS
Jana was a 19-year-old in her final year of high school, with dreams of becoming a doctor.
Then, ISIS came to her village last August, and her world collapsed. She described to CNN’s Ivan Watson in chilling detail how the jihadis first demanded that members of her Yazidi religious minority convert to Islam.
Then they stripped villagers of their jewelry, money, and cellphones.
They separated the men from the women. A United Nations report explained what happened next.
ISIS “gathered all the males older than 10 years of age at the local school, took them outside the village by pick-up trucks, and shot them.
” Among those believed dead were Jana’s father and eldest brother.
A different fate lay in store for the women. Jana described how girls like herself were separated from older women, then bused to the city of Mosul.
There they were put in a big three-story house with hundreds of other young women. The men of ISIS came periodically, and chose up to three or four girls at a time to take home with them.
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