Slaves of the Caliphate
It's the story that exposed the true depravity of the Islamic State: thousands of defenceless girls captured as slaves. This emotional expose meets the woman desperately trying to save the Yazidi girls.
"Today is female slave market day. It is distribution day. With the permission of Allah everyone will get a share", cries the brazen fighter, reclining in a video that shows the casual barbarity of the Islamic State's army. Meanwhile, chased onto Mount Sinjar and executed en masse, Yazidi girls are captured as slaves to the so-called Islamic Caliphate. "I saw everything, I saw girls being raped, tortured, I saw them separating children from their mothers, some were 5 and 6 years old", says a 21 year-old girl who managed to escape. This is the cruel fate that befell the defenceless Yazidi people. Listening to their stories is Kurdish activist Nareen Shammo, a woman determined to free the thousands of young girls still captive. "I always put myself in kidnapped girls' position", says Nareen. "If I were in their position, what would my life be like?" Despite receiving death threats from the Islamic State, Nareen works tirelessly to locate and negotiate the return of the Yazidi women held by IS. This is her story.
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