Escaped ISIS Sex Slave Narrates Her Ordeal
A woman held as a sex slave by Islamic State for seven months has told Sky
News she was abused every day and said the jihadists “were not like humans”.
The 25-year-old victim said her four children, aged five, six, seven and eight
years old, were beaten and abused to ensure she complied with her captor’s
demands.
IS is known to use Yazidi women as sex slaves as they do not recognize their
culture and view them as heathens. Another woman, 22, who became pregnant
while in captivity was not allowed to bury her dead child who was aged just
seven months. She was rescued, along with 30 other Yazidi men, women and
children, by Kurds after being held for a year and a half. IS extremists
rarely allowed the group out of a building after the jihadists moved into
Iraq’s Sinjar mountains in August 2014.
Some 48 hours after being freed, Sky News met the group of eight families in a
Dohuk refugee camp in a Kurdish-controlled area of northern Iraq where they
had medical checks following their captivity. They were all still traumatized
from their experience and spoke of horrifying violence, physical and mental
abuse, a serious lack of food (not fit for animals, they said), poor hygiene
(with little access to water) and constant stress.
They had been smuggled out by a Kurdish group set up to try to track down and
free some of the 3,000 Yazidis still being held by IS in Syria.
The 25-year-old, who was rescued in an operation a few months ago, said she
had been the sex slave of an IS fighter called Omar.
“He abused me every day,” she said.
She was also given contraceptives to ensure she didn’t get pregnant and could
be abused for longer.
“I cannot tell you how awful these people are. I was so worried that he would
take away my children.”
“They were not like humans. You cannot imagine it.
“They were very violent and shouting every day. My father and brothers were
taken away and even now we don’t have any news of them.
“Most probably they were killed but it’s better. It’s better that they are
dead and not in prisons with these people. Even us, we were just wishing to
die rather than stay with such people.”
With extraordinary bravery, she told us how she protested when Omar planned to
sell her on, begging him and threatening to kill herself if he did so. He
relented. She described how her life, despite being free now, is still filled
with awful memories and unrelenting fear which still keeps her awake at night.
She said: “My days are difficult. I escaped but I still feel I am under their
(IS) hands because I have others who are still in their hands.”
“I cannot forget those still there suffering,” she sobbed.
“I will tell my children when they are old enough,” she said. “They need to
know what their parents went through and how it was all caused by religion.
They need to know everything.”
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