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There are 1000s of stories of Yazidi woman's bravery. After being tortured, raped & sold as a sex shelves by Islamic States (ISIS) terrorists. But they shown their courage & managed to escape from ISIS.

It's been 6 years of #YazidiGenocide but still they're away from justice.1/n
3rd Aug marks 6th anniversary of #YazidiGenocide by Islamic State.

1000s killed. 1000s sexually enslaved. 1000s orphaned. 100s of 1000s exiled.

ISIS members brunt their families alive in front of them, brunt their houses, forcefully raped them and sold them as sex shelves. 2/n
Here I share some stories of brave #Yazidi girls who lost & everyone & everything but not lost the hope. They fought & escape from brutal tortured of ISIS.

But People who often share stories about Palestinian, Kashmir not uttar a single word for #Yazidis. 3/n
Lamiya, was 15 when ISIS kidnapped her from Kocho, a Yazidi village in #Sinjar in Aug 2014.
She enslaved by the ISIS terrorists for 20 months, sold 5 times in Iraq & Syria. She tried to escape,but in her 5th attempt in Mosul, she was critically injured in a landmine explosion.4/n
Baseh was 38 when she was enslaved by the Islamic State terrorists. Raped, abused & sold 17 times among members of IS caliphate.
One of them, a Swede & another man, an Albanian, stomped on her hands in his military boots, after she scolded him 4 buying a 9-year-old slave girl
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A Yazidi girl all her family members were killed by ISIS in front of her eyes. The girl has got Hysteria and every time she heras "Allah u Akber",

she screams: They'll kill us, run!

Pulitzer winners photographers are not interested on this. 6/n
A #Yazidi girl, 13 years old, was held for 11 months in ISIS-controlled territory and sold multiple times. Sexually enslaved, she recounted also being forced to cook, clean & wash the clothes of her Syrian terrorist & his family at a house in Raqqah city.
#JusticeForYazidis 7/n
“I wish I was dead. I wish the ground would open and kill me and my children, I don’t sleep, I don’t eat, my body feels very heavy.” A 27 year old #Yazidi woman, held for 17 months in ISIS captivity. #YazidiGenocide 8/n
He said, “It’s ok our religion to take a 9-year-old.”

I said, “Don’t tell me that, I don’t want to here it.”

We were around 35 girls & 3 women, I’m 21 but I was the oldest, One guard was forcing a 9 yr old girl to go with him to the bathroom. A #Yazidi woman. 9/n
"The youngest #Yazidi girl I examined was 8 yrs old. And she was about eight months in the hands of ISIS. She was sold 10 times. That means in the period of 8 months she was raped hundreds of times.” Psychologist Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, a trauma specialist from Germany. 10/n
ISIS terrorist members joke around with each other as screams of a Yazidi girl/woman being raped in the background is heard. The ISIS rapist who was filmed laughing at the sound of a #Yazidi kidnapped girl from #Sinjar being raped. 11/n
"We were not worth the value of animals.They (ISIS) raped girls in groups. They did what a mind could not imagine." A #Yazidi survivor of ISIS captivity. #JusticeForYazidis 12/n
"Each one of us, girls and children, has their own personal story of what they're been through with ISIS."

A #Yazidi survivor of ISIS captivity. #JusticeForYazidis 13/n
"I didn't understand how cruel one man could be. Hajji Salman the worst man I had ever met and after he allowed his guards to rape me, I prayed to be sold. I didn't care to whom and I didn't care where they took me." Nadia Murad, A #Yazidi survivor of ISIS captivity. 14/n
“The hardest part was when ISIS terrorists were selling us in the market at #Raqqa/#Syria, they would publishing our photos to sell us like sheep.” a #Yazidi girl abducted, when she was just 14, by ISIS from #Sinjar in August 2014. #YazidiGenocide
15/n
ISIS terrorists has forcibly transferred multiple groups of between 50 and 300 #Yazidi women and girls into Syria by bus for sale to its fighters there. They were taken to an underground prison or security base in #Raqqah on 17 August 2014. #YazidiGenocide
16/n
“My younger sister, who was just 13 years old then, was repeatedly raped in the adjoining room and her screams still echo in my ears...” Nihad a Yazidi survivor of ISIS captivity. #YazidiGenocide
#JusticeForYazidis
17/n
“They tortured us, tried to forcefully convert us. If we refused we were beaten… Sometimes they threatened to torture us with electricity.” A Yazidi woman escaped ISIS captivity.

#JusticeForYazidis
#YazidiGenocide
18/n
“My family trusted you, and I am the age of your daughter. And today you are forcing me to be your wife, and trying to rape me.” A #Yazidi girl said to an ISIS terrorist, who kidnapped her from #Sinjar in August 2014. #YazidiGenocide
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20-year-old beautiful Yazidi girl was forced to take sleeping pills again and again Then multiple number of ISIS terrorists, one by one, for many hours raped her in unconscious state When this video captured by terrorist shown to her, she committed suicide.
#YazidiGenocide 20/n
Islami States of Syria and Iraq commander:

I killed and slaughtered about 900 people.
I raped about 50 girls (15-16 year old).
I raped over 200 women #YazidiGenocide

21/n
Dilveen was 11 when ISIS raided her village, killed her father and stole her away. She was sold to a 65 year-old man, who planned to marry her, but she escaped. This is her remarkable story. 22/n

#YazidiGenocide
"I didn’t care if I got caught. I didn’t care if I lived or if I died."

"They raped me. They beat me. They tortured me,” she said. Adiba finds it difficult to talk about her past as an ISIS sex slave. Adiba had been bought & sold six time by #ISIS in #Iraq. 23/n
Islamic States butchers cooked the baby son of a #Yazidi sex selve held captive in a cellar & fed him to his unsuspecting & starving mother.

Iraqi MP Vian Dakhill revealed in an emotional interview.

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The stories of brave #Yazidi woman's will never come out if they can't manage to escape from ISIS.

Islamic States wanted to wiped out all kafirs from d world & imposed Islamic Sharia Law

That was the agenda they follow in #Iraq & #Syria by destroying 1000s of Yazidi lives. 25/n
The so called liberal media journalist who spent time on #Iraq & Syria never highlighting the struggle stories of #Yazidis & they only highlighted d agenda of ISIS to create d atmosphere of fear of those bloody terrorists.
But they can't hide the truth & truth is coming out. 26/n
Now many #Yazidis take shelter in Canada and many western countries & start a new life.

Now they are free, but still when the recall the memories of that time under ISIS imprisonment they got panicked. Radicalism may ruined their lives but they didn't lost their hopes.🙏🎩 27/n
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