Nadia Murad: Yazidi survivor kept as ISIS sex slave describes moment her family was massacred

[MariaThinks]

Source: Times of India

Yazidi woman who was kept as a sex slave for three months by ISIS has described the moment her family was massacred.

Nadia Murad, 21, is in the UK campaigning to build solidarity with victims of violence in Iraq and unite the world against ISIS.

Speaking at Trade Union Congress House in central London, she described how ISIS fighters killed six of her brothers and her mother. "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," she said, according to The Mirror.

"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," Murad said.

"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," Murad further said.

"They killed six of my brothers, but there are families that have lost 10 brothers."

Murad went on to say there are still around 3,400 women in the hands of ISIS.



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[oberliner]

1. Despicable human beings

Absolute evil.

[leftynyc]

2. What's beyond barbaric?

That this brave women's story is being repeated thousands of times by thousands of women is heartbreaking. They're "renting" out and raping 9 year olds. They aren't fit to breathe.

[liberalnarb]

3. Disgusting people. evil.

Then there is the fact that we practically created them during the shrub administration.

[MariaThinks]

4. shrub enabled their creation. Radical islam created them.

[liberalnarb]

5. They created their warped version of Islam.

[secondwind]

6. this poor woman.. and how brave she is!

[bluestateguy]

7. ISIL is evil. Plain and simple.

And President Hillary Clinton will extricate them from the planet.