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Islamic State militia strip Yazidi girls naked and sell them in slave markets

The girls are stripped, probed for their virginity and then sold to the highest bidders

Mumbai: The Islamic State’s penchant for unleashing terror and destruction doesn’t end with them occupying large swathes of Iraq. Crossing all limits of humanity, the Islamic State has unleashed a new weapon to terrorise and bring people into submitting to them.

Sexual crimes are the newest weapon the Islamic State has wreaked havoc with.

Young girls, especially from the Yazidi community are abducted, often by brutal force and then kept as properties of the abductor.

The young girls, primarily from the ages of 7 and above are then paraded naked, checked for their virginity using a variety of probing objects that range from fingers, sticks, and various objects that can seriously endanger their health. The girl’s bodies are then evaluated and then sold in weekly slave markets. Girls with blue or green eyes are prized ‘objects’ and are more in demand.

ISIS carries out 'systematic sexual crimes' against Yazidi women and girls after kidnapping over 200 of them from their homes in northern Iraq last August, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a news report on the Daily Mail.

Those considered the most beautiful are then sent to Islamic State's adopted capital where they are sold naked, the UN envoy now claims.

They are first offered to the leaders of the Islamic State, followed by the Emirs, and finally the soldiers.

Each man owns 2 to 3 girls as his property. The men keep the girls with them for their sexual pleasure, rape them, or sodomise them before selling them off to others in the slave market because they are bored with them.

Getting rewarded with girls and virgin beauties is a prime reward recruits look for when they join the Islamic State. The leaders of the Islamic State to satiate the recruits wreak terror and abduct women by force.

"We heard of one girl who was traded 22 times and of a ISIS leader who had written his name on the girl’s hand to show that she was his “property”, the UN envoy said.

Some of the terrified women are so desperate to escape their ordeal that they use their headscarves to hang themselves.

As a result, the rapists of ISIS banned women from wearing headscarves in some IS camps.

The Islamic State also burns women alive for refusing to carry out orders.

The Mirror reported a woman being burnt alive, for not obeying orders that required her to have unnatural sex.

Most of the women have lost their families and have seen their fathers, brothers, husbands being killed mercilessly in front of their eyes to evoke terror and obedience.

This video shows ISIS fighters hoping to lay their hands on young women at 'slave girl market'.

( Source : deccan chronicle )
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