Showing posts with label younger Yazidi women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label younger Yazidi women. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Pair of Yazadi teenage girls escape from ISIS and narrate horrors of their captivity


It appears to be the height of sadism that the ISIS is following and this has been brought out through information furnished by a couple of teenage girls who managed to give them the slip and escape dailymail.co.uk.
These are a pair of Yazidi teenage girls who succeeded in escaping from the clutches of ISIS militants and have narrated the gory details about their capture and captivity. They have revealed the full horror of how they were raped and tortured and forced to watch videos of men from their community being beheaded.
The girls have revealed that some of the girls were traumatized to such an extent by their experiences that they tried to commit suicide but, these girls faced punishment when caught – the ISIS fighters beat them mercilessly when caught.
As narrated by one of the girls – her ordeal began in the Sinjar village of Tal Azir on August 3 when ISIS fighters advanced towards them. She fled along with her mother, her brother and his pregnant wife towards the mountains, but ISIS caught up with them at a remote farmhouse. They then separated the women from the men, mowed down the men by machine gun fire and then bundled the girl onto a pick-up truck and taken to Mosul.
There she was held with hundreds of others prior to being sold off.
The other girl is 19-years-old and the ISIS shot dead her husband and took her captive.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

When will this violence stop


When I, a 70-year-old retired man open the newspaper in the morning or click on to a news site on the internet, I see news of violence everywhere - whether it is the Middle East or Africa or the Indian subcontinent news of violence occupies prime space and also, prime time of the visual mediums. And - these hurt. Why should there be so much blood all around us? We are a civilized lot -then, why should women be hounded out and captured by Islamic State militants in the town of Sinjar? As per a report in nzherald.co.nz they detained women, mostly the youngest and prettiest ones. This is what witnesses, relatives and in some instances the women themselves have revealed. It seems the women were separated from men, then the younger Yazidi women were separated from older ones and most were shunted off in buses or trucks. Once in their custody, the women were offered a bleak choice. The women belonged to the Christian faith and the choice was those who agreed to convert to Islam were promised a good comfortable life, with a house of their own and, of course, a Muslim husband. Those who would not agree to the terms would have to face a life of indefinite imprisonment - or, even, death. Is this an example of civilized life of the 21st century? Are women to be treated as readily available objects meant to satisfy and please the animal instincts of a section of the men?