Many girls from the Yazidi community in Iraq are committing suicide after being raped and sold into sexual slavery by Isis fighters who captured them last August. And some 200 Yazidis, held prisoner for five months before being freed at the weekend because they were sick or old, report continuing mistreatment of those still captive.
“They are very bad people,” said Gawre Semo, 69, who reached the Kurdish-held town of Altun Kupri. “They took our children and they took our women.”
A surprise Isis offensive in August led 50,000 Yazidis to flee into territory held by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). But an unknown number, amounting to many thousands, were massacred or detained while many women were raped or sold as slaves. Isis claims that such treatment of the Yazidis, whose ancient religion is drawn from Islam, Christianity and Zoroastrianism and who Isis call apostates, is permissible under Sharia law.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/freed-yazidis-tell-of-girls-and-women-being-raped-and-sold-into-sexual-slavery-by-isis-fighters-9986554.html
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