Islamic militants in Iraq have created slave
markets, trading and
selling women and children of Christian and Yazidi groups, according to UN investigators.
At least 2,500 women
and children have been imprisoned, sexually abused and sold for around $10
each by Isis slavers.
According
to the International Business Times,The
slave markets in the al-Quds area of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria have been
used as a way of attracting new recruits to Islamic State, the UN
said according to a Times report.
Women who were
captured at the end of August managed to contact the UN, having kept hold of
their mobile phones. They reported being subject to sexual assaults
One 13-year-old Yazidi
girl gave a harrowing account of what happened to her after she was abducted by
Isis from her village on 3 August.
"She stated that
ISIL [Islamic State] took hundreds of women who had not been able to flee to
Jabal Sinjar,""The girl stated that she was raped several times by several ISIL
fighters, before she was sold to a market."
One Yazidi woman was
given to 10 Islamic State men.
"We were sold for
$10 or $12. Who could accept that behaviour? Can God accept that?" the
woman told Euronews. "It's a shame to rape a woman, but when she is raped
by 10 men... what is this? They are animals, they are not humans. Because of them I am afraid all the
time."
She managed to flee
her captors with the help of sympathetic local residents and sought safety in
Mosul.
A 17-year-old woman
said she was being held captive with 40 other Yazidi women by Islamic State
fighters.The newspaper was able to interview her by calling her on her mobile
phone, after being given the number by her parents, who are in a refugee camp in Iraqi
Kurdistan.
"I beg you not to
publish my name because I'm so ashamed of what they are doing to me. There's a
part of me that just wants to die. But there is another part of me that still
hopes that I will be saved and that I will be able to embrace
my parents once again,"
We've asked our
jailers to shoot us dead, to kill us, but we are too valuable for them. They
keep telling us that we are unbelievers because we are non-Muslims and that we
are their property, like war booty. They say we are like goats bought at a
market."
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