Saving the Yazidis
UN OUTRAGED AT CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED BY ISIS
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein said: The array of violations and abuses perpetrated by ISIL, or ISIS and associated armed groups is staggering, and many of their acts may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity. In August, the UN said, ISIS took 450-500 women and girls to the Tal Afar citadel in Iraq’s Nineveh region where 150 unmarried girls and women, predominantly from the Yazidi and Christian communities, were reportedly transported to Syria, either to be given to ISIS fighters as a reward or to be sold as sex slaves. According to investigators, slave markets have been set up in Raqqa, Syria and the al-Quds area of Maturat in Iraq partly to attract new Islamic State fighters.
Reports are that captured women, who had managed to keep their mobile phones and reported being sexually abused, have contacted the UN. Confirmed reports are also that 500 women were reported as having been taken when militants overran a Yazidi village in northwest Iraq. Women have been treated particularly harshly, the report said: ISIS (has) attacked and killed female doctors, lawyers, among other professionals. It quotes a Euronews interview with a 19-year-old mother whose husband was shot by ISIS fighters, as they swept through the Sinjar area in northern Iraq before she was sold in Mosul. The woman, named Amsha, is reported as saying: One Yazidi woman was given to 10 Muslim ISIL men. We were sold for $10 or $12. Who could accept that behavior? Can God accept that?
