![]() He…is the devil and that because you worship the devil, you belong to us. One 15 year old Yazidi girl who was able to escape enslavement recalls being told “…that Taus Malik’ — one of seven angels to whom the Yazidis pray — ‘is not God. Those who resisted were often “dragged out by their hair,†or coerced with the threat of pistols and daggers on themselves or sisters and relatives in the same facility. They were held for days, weeks, or months in confinement in census-boarding facilities, and then young women and girls were transported in smaller batches around Iraq and Syria to be sold as sabayas, or sex slaves. In the Galaxy Banquet Hall of Mosul, alone, some 1,300 Yazidis girls were being held at one time. ![]() After hours of transport, women and girls were herded into abandoned facilities including elementary schools, municipal buildings and wedding halls in the towns of Mosul, Solah and Tal Afar. ![]() The unmarried women and young girls were packed into painted buses, forced to sit on each others’ laps and hidden behind makeshift curtains that blocked out the light. Within hours, families were systematically torn apart and men and boys were separated from women, girls and young children. Yazidis are members of a small religious minority which makes up only 1.5% of Iraq’s population. On August 3, 2014, the story reports, Islamic State fighters invaded the southern part of Mount Sinjar, Northern Iraq where the Yazidis communities reside. ![]() A recent New York Times story detailed how the Islamic State formally introduced the use of systematic sexual slavery in the areas it controls– justifying the act as a means of ibadah, or worship. ![]()
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