Story: The Harrowing Tales of Yazidis Who Escaped ISIS Captivity
Sinjar has been reclaimed, and with the promise that all Yazidis can one day come home and be safe in the town they grew up in, escaped Yazidis who suffered in the hands of the Islamic State are gaining courage to share tales of their travails.
When the ISIS seized Sinjar, a huge number of Yazidis had to leave their homes, and some others were taken captive, with the young girls and women being sold into sex slavery. Boys, on the other hand, were trained to become fighters against their own people.
The Kankle Refugee Camp is one of the few camps that takes in refugees who were forced out of their homes due to the war. Many escaped Yazidis also run to the said camp, ready to tell how the extremists deal with their hostages.
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The Christian Broadcasting Network talked to some of the younger escapees who found refuge at the camp. A 19-year-old girl, whom the outlet called Nazda to keep her identity under wraps, told of how she was treated "like an animal" by an Arab man who purchased her from the terrorists at the price of $800.
Nazda said her buyer treated her badly, and so did the Arab man's four wives, who probably saw her not only as a sex slave but a house slave as well.
The teen also said those who tried to help save the women who didn't want to go with their buyers were beheaded in front of the captives at an ISIS court. "They showed us this is the fate of anybody trying to help you," she said.
Another escapee, given the name Mamo, said there were hundreds of other boys back in the ISIS camps that just like him were trained to become terrorists. He said the extremists considered people who didn't believe in Islam or Allah as blasphemers. Mamo said the terrorists wanted "to convert us, then to make us into a jihadi and then kill our own people, the Yazidis."
Both Nazda and Mamo learned one thing from their stay as captives inside the ISIS world — "Islamic State is a big state and can cover the whole world."
Mamo and his mother were among the braver few who escaped without the help of others, but Nazda was miraculously rescued by people who knew they had to do something to help their own people see hope through escape plans.
