World's attention needed
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A young Yazidi woman forced into sex slavery by the ISIS has begged the West to bomb the brothel where she was being held after ISIS militants raped her 30 times in just a few hours, it is claimed.
The unidentified woman is understood to have been kept as a prisoner of the jihadists somewhere in western Iraq having been captured by ISIS during the Sinjar massacre in early August.
A group raising awareness of ISIS' persecution of women in the vast swathes of the Middle East under its control said the woman had contacted Kurdish peshmerga fighters by telephone to plead for the brothel to be bombed to put the women held as sex slaves out of their misery.
She allegedly told the fighters she had been raped so frequently by the ISIS militants that she could no longer use the toilet, adding that the ordeal has been so harrowing that she plans to commit suicide even if freed.
A man identified as Karam described how a friend embedded with the peshmerga took a phone call from the Yazidi woman.
Describing the woman as crying on the phone, Karam quoted her as saying: 'If you know where we are please bomb us... There is no life after this. I'm going to kill myself anyway - others have killed themselves this morning.'
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Around 5-7,000 Yazidi women are being held in makeshift detention centres by ISIS, where they either been taken away and sold into slavery or handed over to jihadists as concubines.
Last week the UN confirmed that thousands of Yazidis were slaughtered in scenes reminiscent of the Bosnian Srebrenica massacre when ISIS swept through northern Iraq in August.
While it is good that the world is paying attention to the plights of various other people around the globe, it is also important to help the Yazidis too.
...because they are also human.
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