Iraq's Yazidi minority was recently raided by the Islamic State militants. Recent reports shows that women and girls who were captured by the militant group are forced into sexual slavery and left badly traumatized by the experience, some even commit suicide. This news is according to the latest Amnesty International report after they have interviewed survivors of the raid.
Amnesty International has managed to interview more than 40 of these Yazidi women survivors. These survivors were among the hundreds who were capture by the Islamic State militants in Sinjar, Iraq last Aug.
Donatella Rover, Amnesty International's senior crisis response advisor said in an official statement; "Many of those held as sexual slaves are children - girls aged 14, 15 or even younger. Islamic State fighters are using rape as a weapon in attacks amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity." Rover added that she even had the rare privilege of interviewing more than a dozen of deeply traumatized women captured by the Islamic State militants, including one girl who described to her another girl's suicide.
Many Yazidi survivors claim that some women even prefer suicide than become a sexual slave of the Islamic State militants. One victim's story claims that they were given clothes and were ordered to take and bath and were the clothes after. One of the women slit here wrist and hanged herself in order to escape the horrible experience that would soon befall her. Another of the survivors, Wafa, 27, shared to Amnesty International that she and her sister have even contemplated of killing themselves after an ISIS leader told them that they will be wedded to their abductors. Another case is Raida, 16; according to her she was sold to a man almost twice her age and was made into a sex slave. She said she was raped multiple time, adding that her mother and several other women including her own family were abducted too.
Donatella Rover has expressed her extreme grief upon hearing the victim's stories and has urged the international community to help the victims of Islamic State militant's inhumane actions.
