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Captured Yazidis were taken as slaves and forced to use contraceptive pills and injections, and those captured pregnant were victims of forced abortions. Reports covered that Yazidi women and girls were told that they had to abort their previous unborn children since IS fighters were interested only in making Muslim babies.
The 2014 Yazidi genocide that was carried out by the Islamic State saw over 5,000 Yazidis killed and thousands of Yazidi women and girls forced into sexual slavery, [46] as well as the flight of more than 500,000 Yazidi refugees. [47] [48] [49]
Fawzia Amin Sido (Kurdish: Fewziya Emîn Seydo, [6] فەوزییە ئەمین سیدۆ, [a] Arabic: فوزية أمين سيدو [3] [13]) is a Kurdish Yazidi woman from northern Iraq. She was captured by the Islamic State as a 10-year-old child, [b] during the Yazidi genocide in 2014.
Now 18, the Yazidi girl was abducted from her village of Kocho, 15 miles south of Sinjar, Iraq, in 2014, Ali told CBS News. She was one of more than 6,000 Yazidi women and girls believed to have ...
A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped aged 11 in Iraq by the Islamic State group and subsequently taken to Gaza has been rescued after more than a decade in captivity there, officials said. The 21-year ...
Yazidis fled to the heights to escape IS, as they have done in past bouts of persecution. In Sinjar town, the district center, soldiers lounge in front of small shops on the main street.
Thousands of Yazidi women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the Sunni fundamentalist majority-Arab terrorist group ISIL, and thousands of Yazidi men were killed. [45] Five thousand Yazidi civilians were killed [46] during what has been called a "forced conversion campaign" [47] [48] being carried out by
Thousands were killed or abducted, including many women and girls subjected to sexual violence and enslavement. Ten years on, a traumatized Yazidi community is still convulsed by the legacy of IS’s brutal campaign, well after the group’s territorial defeat. Nearly 2,600 Yazidis are still considered missing, to the anguish of their families.