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onsdag 6 augusti 2014

Jihadists kidnap 500 Kurdish Yazidi women and offer them to its fighters


Jihadists kidnap 500 Kurdish Yazidi women and offer them to its fighters .
ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Human rights Commission in Iraq said on Wednesday, that the al-Qaeda linked Islamic-jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS dragged dozens of women after killing their men and offered them to its terrorist elements as slaves. 

The Kurdish MP in the Iraqi parliament, Vian Dakhel announced Tuesday that 500 Yazidi women from Kurdish town of Shingal (Sinjar) are detained by ISIS. 

The MP, one of the Yezidi religion said that ISIS militants transferred the women to an unknown area in Tal Afar. The member of the Commission, Salama al- Khafaji said that "What has been done by ISIS organization towards children, women and men are heinous crimes against humanity",www.Ekurd.net noting that "The Commission recorded that the terrorist organization took dozens of women from the Turkmen component and offered them to its elements to be transferred with them to any area."

A deputy in Kurdistan Region parliament Bisetoon Fayeq also confirmed the news and told Xendan website that the jihadist militants have kidnapped and raped 500 Yazidi women, adding that the militants have also kidnapped a number of pregnant women, freed some of them and have killed some others.

The Chief of Women Rights’ Defense Commission Eywar Ibrahim told Rudaw that they are aware of the place the kidnapped women are being kept.
  

He went on to say that the women are being kept in a gym across from New Palace Hotel in western Mosul, warning Shangal refugees are in a very troublesome situation.

Kurdish Peshmerga forces have withdrew few days ago from Shingal and Zumar areas without a fight after being attacked by ISIS militants, which seized control of those Kurdish areas and led to a mass exodus of its population who are from Kurdish Yezidis majority.

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