Yazidi Victims of Mass Rape Threatened with Death Upon Release from ISIS Captivity
According to Kurdish media network Rudaw, seventeen-year-old “Suzan,” a Kurdish Yezidi girl was kidnapped, gang-raped, enslaved, and impregnated by ISIS warriors. Incredibly, she managed to escape and has told her story to Delal Sindy, a Swedish-Kurdish activist living in a Kurdish region.
“Suzan’s” story is surreal but alarmingly typical. She and other female sex slaves were lined up naked every morning, “smelled,” and then chosen either by ISIS militant Al-Russiyah, or by his bodyguards. They were beaten and gang-raped daily. When “Suzan” was sold to Al-Russiyah, she was held in a hotel in Mosul in a building full of half-naked girls and women. The virgins were highly prized; as such, they were examined to make sure that their hymens were intact and then taken to a room filled with 30-40 men who chose among them.
Based on “Suzan’s” and other reports, sexually repressed Jihadic misogynists are treating innocent, virgin children as if they are sophisticated prostituted women, the kind of women that jihadists watch, addictively, in pornography. Among the recently released 216 Yazidi women, there was a nine-year-old Yazidi girl who was pregnant; she had been raped by at least ten Islamic jihadists.
ISIS fighters are also torturing the girls as if sadistic torture is synonymous with sexual expression. They are killing the girls, even burning them alive, when they resist or cannot perform. “Suzan” reports that she was forced to “say things from the Quran” during the rapes. If she refused, they whipped her or burned her thighs with boiling water. ISIS fighters cut off the legs of one girl who tried to escape.
“Suzan’s” father is dead and she cannot find her mother, but her uncle has threatened to honor/“horror” kill her “if he finds out that she has been sexually abused or her honor ‘tainted.”’ Tragically, this is typical. If a rape victim has been brought up in a tribal shame-and-honor culture, one in which rape victims see themselves—and are seen—as “sexually inappropriate,” they are routinely honor/“horror” killed by their own families.
The raped Kurdish and Yazidi women and their Sunni Arab babies will never be accepted—not even though the “highest Yazidi cleric [has urged] families to accept and welcome the women who had fled ISIS.” Rape is no longer merely a spoil of war. It has become a major weapon of war. Think Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan, and Nigeria. The repeated public gang-rapes of female children and women is meant to drive these victims out of their minds—which it often does. They become depressed, insomniac, and suicidal. “Suzan” is haunted by flashbacks and wishes she was dead. “I want to kill myself,” she says. . . .
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