Former Yazidi Sex Slaves Take up Arms to Fight ISIS http://bit.ly/1TBIKP3
When ISIS first starting making headlines in 2014, the depths of their evil wasn’t immediately obvious in the West. Admittedly, they acted like brutal fanatics who quickly gained a reputation for savagery, on and off the battlefield. However, aside from the large territory they had attained, they didn’t seem to stand out from the numerous rebel factions and criminal organizations that inhabited Syria and Iraq.
But after the Sinjar Massacre of the Yazidi people, it became abundantly clear to the world that ISIS was different. These weren’t just opportunistic criminals, nor were they fanatical Islamic revolutionaries or misguided rebels. They were, and are, a manifestation of all the abhorrent behaviors that humans are capable of. They are downright evil, in the strictest sense of the word.
Beginning on August 3rd, 2014, ISIS started attacking Yazidi communities in the Nineveh province after Peshmerga units left the area unannounced in the middle of the night. They managed to force 200,000 people to flee the city of Sinjar, 50,000 of who escaped into the Sinjar mountains where ISIS chased them down. Between 2000 and 5000 people were killed, most of them older men and women. As for the young, the boys they captured were brainwashed into becoming child soldiers, and girls, some as young as 8 or 9, were sold into sexual slavery. And that is just the tamest account of what really happened to these kids.
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