ISIS sex slavery survivor named UN goodwill ambassador
An ISIS victim Iraqi Yazidi Nadia Murad Basee Taha (left), speaks during her visit in the makeshift refugee camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Sunday, April 3, 2016. (AP)
A young Iraqi woman who survived rape and abuse as a sex slave of ISIS fighters on Friday became a UN goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking.
Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman, called for justice for the victims of the terror group and argued that the 2014 attack on the Yazidis should be recognized as a genocide.
Murad was taken from her home village of Kocho near Iraq’s northern town of Sinjar in August 2014 and brought to ISIS-controlled Mosul, where she was gang-raped, and bought and sold many times.
“I was used in the way that they wanted to use me. I was not alone,” Murad said during a ceremony held at UN headquarters.
“Perhaps I was the lucky one. As time passed, I found a way to escape where thousands others could not. They are still captive.”
Her voice trembling, Murad called for the release of some 3,200 Yazidi women and girls still being held as sex slaves by ISIS fighters and for the captors to face justice.
“My real fear is that once ISIS is defeated, ISIS militants, ISIS terrorists will just shave off their beards and walk the streets of the cities as if nothing as happened,” she said.
“We cannot let this happen.”
Murad said her hope was that one day, Yazidi victims will be able to look “our abusers in the eye before a court in The Hague and tell the world what they have done to us, so that our community can heal.”
Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman, called for justice for the victims of the terror group and argued that the 2014 attack on the Yazidis should be recognized as a genocide.
Murad was taken from her home village of Kocho near Iraq’s northern town of Sinjar in August 2014 and brought to ISIS-controlled Mosul, where she was gang-raped, and bought and sold many times.
“I was used in the way that they wanted to use me. I was not alone,” Murad said during a ceremony held at UN headquarters.
“Perhaps I was the lucky one. As time passed, I found a way to escape where thousands others could not. They are still captive.”
Her voice trembling, Murad called for the release of some 3,200 Yazidi women and girls still being held as sex slaves by ISIS fighters and for the captors to face justice.
“My real fear is that once ISIS is defeated, ISIS militants, ISIS terrorists will just shave off their beards and walk the streets of the cities as if nothing as happened,” she said.
“We cannot let this happen.”
Murad said her hope was that one day, Yazidi victims will be able to look “our abusers in the eye before a court in The Hague and tell the world what they have done to us, so that our community can heal.”
Victims of trafficking
Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/09/17/ISIS-sex-slavery-survivor-named-UN-goodwill-ambassador.html
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