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Yazidi activist Nadia Murad announced the rescue of six Yazidi women who had been held captive by the ISIS since 2014

2023-06-04

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Yazidi activist #Nadia_Murad announced the rescue of six #Yazidi women who had been held captive by the #ISIS since 2014.https://t.co/sDzWJD4AGV
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 3, 2023

Yazidi activist Nadia Murad announced on Saturday the rescue of six Yazidi women who had been held captive by the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) since 2014.

Murad said in a statement, "The women were still children and teenagers when they first taken captive in 2014. Trafficked out from Iraq into Syria, they were rescued on Saturday morning."

The women, who were flown back to Erbil to reunite with their families, were provided "all the psychological support they need," Murad said.

Murad hailed the role of the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Nechervan Barzani, in bringing the women back, but she did not mention any effort by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Murad, a sexual violence survivor, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for her efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon of war.

Rudaw adds:

In August 2014, ISIS turbans seized the Yazidi heartland of Shingal in northern Iraq and committed genocide against the minority community. More than 400,000 Yazidis fled. The men and older women who were not able to flee were killed. More than 5,000 were buried in mass graves. An estimated 6,417 women and kiddies were enslaved.

Murad also thanked ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities who "played an important role" in bringing the captive women back to safety. She did not elaborate on the role ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
played.

Murad, who lived with her family in the Shingal area, was one of the women taken captive. After she escaped, she publicly told her story and brought the horrors of the genocide to the world’s attention. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 and is a United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
goodwill ambassador, campaigning for the survivors of human trafficking.

Around 2,700 of the women and kiddies seized by ISIS are still missing. Many of them were brought by their captives when they went to Syria after ISIS’ defeat in Iraq. Some women have been found in northeast Syria’s al-Hol camp, among the families of ISIS fighters and supporters.

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani established an office to rescue the missing women and kiddies. Murad credited Barzani with assisting with Saturday’s rescue that was the result of weeks of investigation.

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