OUTRAGE AS ISIL SELLS IZADI WOMEN INTO SLAVE MARKETS

Damascus,6 Dzulqa’dah 1435/1 September 2014 (MINA) – Human rights activists and organizations have called on the international community, the Iraqi government, and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to take immediate measures to bring back thousands of Izadi women abducted by ISIL terrorists, Press TV reports.

They also demanded maximum penalty for states that support the Takfiris in waging violence in crisis-hit Iraq and Syria.

“The KRG, Baghdad, and the international community all have the responsibility of bringing back our girls and of punishing the countries backing ISIL in Iraq and Syria,” said female human rights activist Nyaz Abdullah, adding, “Girls as young as three years of age have been abducted, killed, raped, enslaved, and imprisoned.” according to Press TV reports quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA), Monday.

“International silence over this cannot be tolerated,” she noted.

According to the United Nations, as many as 200,000 civilians, mostly from the Izadi Kurd community, have fled their homes after the capture of the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar by the ISIL militants.

Scores of Izadi women have been kidnapped and many others killed since then.

Human rights activist Nazer Jamil Abdulaziz, who spoke to survivors in Sinjar, said the displaced are “completely traumatized,” and were suffering from “different psychological problems.”

ISIL has now “established slave markets in the Nineveh Province,” and was transferring some of the women to Syria for slavery, said Mohammed Gomashini from the Independent Human Rights Committee.

Iraq has been fighting the ISIL terrorists since they took control of Mosul on June 10.

The takeover was followed by the fall of the city of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital, Baghdad. The control of Tikrit was later retaken by the Iraqi army.

The ISIL terrorists have been committing heinous crimes in the captured areas, including the mass execution of civilians and Iraqi security forces.

Soldiers of the Iraqi army have been engaged in heavy fighting with the militants on different fronts and have so far been able to push back militants in several areas. (T/P002/P3)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)