More ISIS horror stories continue to come to light, the latest involving the execution of 19 girls, who refused to have sex with the ISIS fighters. According to a Kurdish official, the women were held hostage in the ISIS-controlled region of Mosul, Iraq. There are no confirmed reports whether the executed young women were Yazidis or not – a community which is viewed as heretical by the fanatic group. A spokesperson for the Kurdish Democratic Party in Mosul told Iraqi news that the since the girls met their grim end as they were not willing to “participate in the practice of sexual jihad.”
Another report by a Zainab Bangura, a UN envoy investigating the ISIS sex trade has verified a troubling ISIS document, which suggested that the extremist group sells the Yazidi and Christian women and children they abducted, with girls aged one to nine-years-olds being given to the highest bidders. “Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom,” she added.
Bloomberg quotes her saying that, “The girls get peddled like barrels of petrol... One girl can be sold and bought by five or six different men.” Fighters were given first preference followed by wealthy Middle-Easterners for bidding for the captured young women. Said Mimousini also claimed that disputes regarding money and the distribution of women have also caused rifts within the ISIS’s ranks.
Gruesome details of the atrocities committed by the ISIS group keep on resurfacing in the news at an alarming frequency. A video, released last November, showing a day at an ISIS ‘sex slave market’, revealed how fighters bargained for women slaves, explaining how each girls were priced according to their physical features.
According to a report by Amnesty International, thousands of Yazidi girls and women were either forced to marry or sold to fighters as sex slaves. The girls who managed to escape were severely traumatised and displayed suicidal tendencies.
