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MariaThinks

(2,495 posts)
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 06:19 PM Jun 2016

Meet the man saving Yazidi slaves from ISIS

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Source: CNN


The bidding opens at $9,000. For sale? A Yazidi girl.

She is said to be beautiful, hardworking, and a virgin. She's also just 11 years old.

Each offers vital clues -- photographs, locations -- that he hopes will help him save Yazidi girls and young women like this girl from the militants holding them captive.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/middleeast/saving-yazidi-captives-from-isis/index.html

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Meet the man saving Yazidi slaves from ISIS (Original Post) MariaThinks Jun 2016 OP
Sad situation bucolic_frolic Jun 2016 #1

bucolic_frolic

(43,027 posts)
1. Sad situation
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 06:27 PM
Jun 2016

wonder if it's safe for them to appear on TV and release details
about those helping them

Seems imprudent to me

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