Showing posts with label Yazidis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yazidis. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Tied to a bed, injected with morphine to stay 'silent' and beaten so badly she couldn't walk for two months: Two Yazidi sex slaves relive the unspeakable cruelty they suffered at hands of ISIS fighters


  • WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
  • A mother, 19, 'submitted' to her captor when he beat her one-year-old son
  • She felt like killing herself but could not do it, fearful of her son's welfare 
  • Another woman, 25, beaten so severely she could not walk for two months
  • Both sold at vile slave auctions, then passed from one fanatic to another
  • They told how 'European' fighters also took part in the sick trade 
  • Hundreds of Yazidi women have been captured, kept as sex slaves by ISIS

PUBLISHED: 13:29 GMT, 7 July 2015 | UPDATED: 19:00 GMT, 7 July 2015

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Iraqi refugees fleeing ISIS

August 14, 2014 -- Updated 0013 GMT (0813 HKT)
Browse through photos of thousands of refugees trudging across a river to escape ISIS.

Arab neighbors joined ISIIn a breathtaking half hour, CNN takes you behind the scenes of the dramatic rescue from Mount Sinjar as people embark on a flight from terror. Watch "Flight from Terror" on CNN International this Saturday at 1330 GMT (1530 CET), on Sunday at 0300 GMT (0500 CET), 1000 GMT (1200 CET) and on Monday at 0000 GMT (0200 CET) and 0530 GMT (0730 CET).S slaughter, escaped Yazidi says

By Ivan Watson, Sara Sidner, and Ted Rowlands CNN
August 16, 2014 -- Updated 1014 GMT (1814 HKT)

'ISIS want to impregnate Yazidi women and smash our blond bloodline': Fears grow for the 300 women kidnapped from Sinjar

  • Jihadist troops bolster forces further south in apparent bid to broaden front with Kurdish peshmerga fighters
  • Expert tells MailOnline: 'IS is coming under pressure and they need to show results to fuel their media machine'
  • Comes after air strikes and Kurdish forces helped to break siege of Mount Sinjar that allowed 45,000 Yazidis to flee
  • U.S. defence secretary Chuck Hagel said mission to rescue others stranded on mountain was now 'far less likely'
  • UN declares highest level of emergency for the humanitarian crisis as number of displaced Iraqis tops 1.5million

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

'Heroic' mission rescues desperate Yazidis from ISIS


By Dana Ford and Josh Levs, CNN
August 12, 2014 -- Updated 2034 GMT (0434 HKT)

Plight of the Yazidis

Aug 11, 2014 18:09 UTC

Islamic State militants capture Sinjar, prompting thousands from the Yazidi ethnic minority to flee. 33 PHOTOS

Image 1 of 33: Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, August 11, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said