"It's not about ISIS...I'm in danger — my people cannot go back." Nobel Prize winner Nadia Murad risked her life to escape ISIS. When they met, President Trump apparently hadn't heard of her.
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00:00I'm still fighting just to live in safe.
00:03Please do something and it's not about one family.
00:07I know the area very well you're talking about.
00:09It's about half a million. It's about the whole community.
00:12Okay. We're going to look into it very strongly.
00:14Thank you so much.
00:15And you had the Nobel Prize.
00:17Yeah.
00:18That's incredible.
00:19They gave it to you for what reason? Maybe you can explain.
00:30If the heads were cut off,
00:33the women were raped, the children were raped,
00:36and the millions were displaced,
00:38if they didn't move you, when will you move?
00:43Life wasn't created just for you and your families.
00:47We also want life and it's our right to live it.
01:00In 2004, when ISIS invaded Shingal,
01:05I was there.
01:07At that time, I was there to pray,
01:12because I didn't want to be there.
01:15At that time, when ISIS invaded Shingal,
01:20my family, my country,
01:22almost all of them were killed.
01:25About 5,000 people were killed.
01:29There were about 6,500 women and children.
01:35ISIS killed more women than Rojava.
01:38They killed more than 7,000 women.
01:41In Iraq and Syria,
01:43in the area of ISIS in Iran,
01:45they raped women and children.
01:50They killed more women than ISIS
01:53because they were Muslims.
01:55When ISIS attacked,
01:58there were many people who were killed
02:01and many of them were wounded.
02:03They killed women and children,
02:05because of ISIS.
02:25I hope you can call or anything to Iraqi and Kurdistan government to ISIS is gone.
02:38But if I if I know it's Kurdish and Iraqi Iraqi government, if I cannot go to my home
02:44and live in a safe place and get my like my dignity back, this is not about ISIS.
02:52It's about I'm in dangerous.
02:54My people cannot go back.
02:57We are not million of people.
02:58We are only half million people.