ezidxan: I want my voice to be heard: How two Êzîdî sisters escaped IS captorsBadi
ezidxan:I want my voice to be heard: How two Êzîdî sisters escaped IS captorsBadia, 15-years-old, and sister Beshra, 16-years-oldÊzîdîs are an ethnic and religious minority group, attacked in their homeland in Sinjar when ISIS swept through northern Iraq in 2014.Beshra and Badia are sisters who live in a refugee camp near Duhok in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. They fled Sinjar with their parents in 2014 but were captured by ISIS. The sisters were separated from their parents and forced to become sex slaves for IS fighters. They treated us very badly. They beat us every day. When they knew we had escaped, they used their cars to search for us in the middle of the night. I couldn’t speak Arabic but the girl I escaped with could and she told me that the IS members were shouting, ‘You are animals, you are bitches, and we will capture you and kill you wherever you go.’The two sisters were able to reunite with their mother and siblings. Their father is still missing. They say they are waiting for him to return so that they can travel as a family back to Sinjar.Beshra does not shy away from telling her story: I want my voice to be heard and to reach all the corners of the earth. We want everyone to know what has happened to the Êzîdî girls and women and all the Êzîdî people. By CBCRadio -- source link
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