We have a special admiration for the Yazidi women and their Kurdish sisters and do think they should be celebrated.
From the Daily Mail, March 8:
- Yazidi women gather to commemorate thousands of girls and women killed by ISIS in the so-called caliphate
- Worshippers lit candles and at the ceremony to remember the victims of murder, rape and sexual violence
- At Lilash Temple in Shikhan north of Iraq during International Women Day the deaths were commemorated
Dozens of Yazidi women have gathered to commemorate the thousands of girls and women who were killed by ISIS under the so-called caliphate.The worshippers lit candles and attended a ceremony to remember the victims of murder, rape and sexual violence at the hands of the militants.ISIS overran the Yazidi faith's heartland of Sinjar in northern Iraq in 2014, forcing young women into servitude as 'wives' for its fighters and massacring men and older women.
The Yazidis are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions.Islamic State considers them devil worshippers and its attacks on the group were condemned as a 'genocide' by the United Nations.The ceremony at Lilash Temple in Shikhan in the north of Iraq today during International Women Day was to commemorate the deaths of women killed by the fanatics.
A month ago the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched what it called a 'final battle' to take the cluster of houses and farmland, and people leaving in the enclave of Baghouz near the Iraqi border have described harrowing conditions of peril and hardship.A Yazidi woman who emerged on Thursday spoke of years of enslavement and abuse by the jihadists.Salwa Sayed al-Omar spent years as a Yazidi prisoner of ISIS but she escaped its clutches this week, fleeing its last populated enclave in east Syria along with two Iraqi boys pretending to be her brothers.Describing how jihadists bought and sold their Yazidi captives or passed them around as sexual slaves, Omar said: 'They took women, abused them and killed them.'A woman was shifted from one man to another unless it was to one who had a bit of mercy... if she was in good condition, she would carry on. If not, she would get married to avoid being abused.'
Previously on the Yazidi and Kurdish women:Omar was eventually married to a jihadist from Tajikistan.As the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) besieged the enclave at Baghouz, some surviving Yazidi women and children emerged among many thousands of others fleeing deprivation and bombardment, including the militant group's own unrepentant supporters....MUCH MORE
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