ISIS’s Harrowing Sexual Violence Toward Yezidi Women Revealed
Source: Time
Tessa Berenson
Militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have enslaved and sexually brutalized scores of women, selling them into marriage or giving them as gifts to militant fighters, according to a new report.
Since August, ISIS has captured hundreds, if not thousands of Yezidi women and girls and taken them into sexual slavery as part of an ethnic cleansing movement, the Amnesty International report says. The Yezidis are a Kurdish ethno-religious minority group that have been historically oppressed by Sunni extremists.
Once captive, many of the women are forced to convert to Islam and subjected to rape and other forms of sexual abuse. “Many of those held as sexual slaves are children — girls aged 14, 15 or even younger,” said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty’s senior crisis-response adviser. “[ISIS] fighters are using rape as a weapon in attacks amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
The report also details how many of the captive women have been driven to suicide by their abuse.
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When mass rape was reported in the Congo in 2013, did you get excited about it? Oh, I'm sure you did. 
