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| Kurdish Yezidi sisters tell of ISIS enslavement | |
| 2015-06-02 | |
| [RUDAW.NET] Kurdish authorities in Dohuk say at least 4,500 Kurdish Yezidis are still being held by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... holy warriors in Iraq and Syria despite rescue efforts that have so far secured the release of nearly 1,700 Yezidi captives. Rudaw met with two Yezidi sisters who escaped ISIS captivity in eastern Syria in early May following an operation by US Special Forces that led to the killing of a key ISIS commander known as Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... . At the time of the raid, the sisters were being held in a nearby home of another ISIS fighter. The two sisters, 26 and 24, are now living at the Shariya Camp outside Duhok in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. They told Rudaw a harrowing story about their time in ISIS captivity. "We were forced into buses, all of us, maybe 300 to 500 of us, women and much younger girls," said the 26-year-old about the day they were kidnapped in Shingal in August 2014. Both women requested anonymity.
She said many of the Yezidi women were also sold into slavery to Arab sheikhs and tribal leaders in the area, and some of the women were as young as 15. "We were moving all the time. They did not speak to us and when they did, they talked in an abusive language," the younger sister remembered, her eyes filling with tears. "It was terrible in Homs," she said, referring to ISIS' de-facto capital. "We were given little food and water and were told to convert to Islam or they would kill us." The Office of Yezidi Affairs in Dohuk, a government organization that releases daily figures and data about Yezidi captives, told Rudaw earlier it so far verified the deaths of 1,280 Yezidis who bit the dust while in ISIS captivity. "We have to have this point highlighted: 10 mass graves have been found since last summer with Yezidis shot at close range," Hussein Koro, the head of the office, told Rudaw. The two sisters were being held near the house of Abu Sayyaf, a senior ISIS leader who had a leading role in overseeing ISIS oil and gas operations. A US Army front man said he was killed in a firefight after he resisted capture. "When the An ISIS Death Eater, she said, then moved the two sisters to Raqqa. Ransoms have been paid to secure the release of many Yezidi captives, according to Koro. After their release, the two sisters then crossed the border into ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and arrived in Dohuk several days later. They said many of their relatives are still in captivity in Syria, enduring appalling conditions. "No one knows the right number of those in captivity, but I would say thousands are still there," said the eldest sister. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Ouch, Pappy. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-06-02 22:36 |
| #1 She said many of the Yezidi women were also sold into slavery to Arab sheikhs and tribal leaders in the area, and some of the women were as young as 15. Ah, but did they suffer wage disparity? /sarc |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-06-02 14:41 |