Yazidi refugee: Islamic State took women "for themselves"
- 10 years ago
A Yazidi woman sits on a mattress with her newborn at a refugee camp in northern Iraq.
She faces a daily fight to survive, as her ethnic population faces the threat of extinction from Islamic State fighters.
Human Rights Watch has released a report citing the personal accounts of several survivors.
One Yazidi woman says she saw her husband's life end before her eyes..
She says that Islamic State fighters are after women.
(SOUNDBITE) (Kurdish) YAZIDI WOMAN, WITH HER FACE COVERED, SAYING:
"They killed my husband in front of me, as well as my brother-in-law and my father-in-law, within minutes. Now, my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law are under their grip. The Islamic State were looking for women and they took them for themselves."
Another elderly Yazidi woman also says girls have been taken by the extremist militants.
(SOUNDBITE) (Kurdish) ELDERLY YAZIDI WOMAN, SAYING:
"When Islamic State came, they surrounded the house. They separa
She faces a daily fight to survive, as her ethnic population faces the threat of extinction from Islamic State fighters.
Human Rights Watch has released a report citing the personal accounts of several survivors.
One Yazidi woman says she saw her husband's life end before her eyes..
She says that Islamic State fighters are after women.
(SOUNDBITE) (Kurdish) YAZIDI WOMAN, WITH HER FACE COVERED, SAYING:
"They killed my husband in front of me, as well as my brother-in-law and my father-in-law, within minutes. Now, my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law are under their grip. The Islamic State were looking for women and they took them for themselves."
Another elderly Yazidi woman also says girls have been taken by the extremist militants.
(SOUNDBITE) (Kurdish) ELDERLY YAZIDI WOMAN, SAYING:
"When Islamic State came, they surrounded the house. They separa