Now that Nadia Murad won Nobel Peace Prize, many people want a piece of cake.

Now that Nadia Murad won Nobel Peace Prize, many people want a piece of cake.
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She and Ezedier, however, are no one to use for their own gain.
However, one can use her story, her heartbreaking story to awake sleeping politicians, to give a living example of how dangerous Islamism is. Here the organization A Demand For Action is a very good example - they have been fighting for ezedier since the day thatis committed genocide on them, and they speak several years about their situation when very few people cared for this in Sweden.



Read Nadia's Heartbreaking History Here:

"The jihadists saw Nadia and her neighbors as the worst sort of infidels. The Yazidi faith has no holy book, but draws on a mix of Mesopotamian traditions. Yazidis revere a peacock angel that temporarily fell from God's grace; many Muslims regard this as devil -worship.

Estimates of how many Yazidis there are range widely, from 70,000 to 500,000, mostly in Iraq but also in Syria and Germany. IS set out to reduce that number to zero, by forced conversion or Kalashnikov.

On August 15th the IS fighters in Kocho summoned everyone to the village school and separated the men from the women and children. Nadia watched from a second-floor window as they marched the men away. They slaughtered 312 in an hour, including six of Nadia's brothers and stepbrothers. They murdered the older women, too, including Nadia's mother. They forced the young women and children into buses and took them to Mosul, IS's main stronghold in Iraq, which, as 1843 went to press, was under siege by Iraqi government forces.

Nadia was shut in a building with 1,000 other families. The women were sick with fear; they knew what was coming. The fighters were about to divide the spoils. A man kwam naar Nadia en zei dat hij wou om haar te nemen. She looked up and saw that he was enormous, "like a monster". "I cried out that I was too young and he was huge. He kicked and beat me. A few minutes later, another man came up to me ... I saw that he was a little smaller. I asked for him to take me. "

The jihadist who took Nadia told her to convert to Islam. She refused. One day, he asked for her hand in "marriage". She said she was ill. A few days later, he forced her to get dressed and put on makeup. "Then, on that terrible night, he did it."

From then on, she was raped daily. When she tried to flee, a guard stopped here, forced her to strip and put her in a room with several guards, "who continued to commit their crime until I fainted." She finally escaped when her captor left a unlocked. She could not return home, because IS still controlled her village. Eventually, she found a sanctuary in Germany, where she lives now. "

hey make an unusual team. Amal Clooney is an Oxford-educated human-rights lawyer married to a film star. Nadia Murad was born in a poor Iraqi village and once aspired to become a teacher. Clooney is tall, dazzling and so recognisable that people walk up to her in the street and tell her they love her. Murad is small, shy and avoids eye contact. Yet among her people, the Yazidis, Murad is better known and more admired than any other woman on Earth. Murad is a symbol of survival for a minority threatened with extermination. She was once a slave of Islamic State (IS). And, almost alone among former prisoners of IS, she is willing to testify publicly and repeatedly about the terrible things the jihadists did to her. 

Clooney is Murad’s lawyer, and the two women are working to bring the leaders of IS before an international court for inflicting genocide on the Yazidis. The story of their campaign is an extraordinary one: a tale of pious savagery pitted against truth, law and the soft power of celebrity. 

It begins in August 2014, when Murad was a 21-year-old student. That month, IS fighters arrived in her village, Kocho, on the Nineveh plain. They were a terrifying mob, all of them heavily armed and many speaking languages that no one in Kocho understood. 

The jihadists saw Nadia and her neighbours as the worst sort of infidels. The Yazidi faith has no holy book, but draws on a mix of Mesopotamian traditions. Yazidis revere a peacock angel that temporarily fell from God’s grace; many Muslims regard this as devil-worship. 

Estimates of how many Yazidis there are range widely, from 70,000 to 500,000, mostly in Iraq but also in Syria and Germany. IS set out to reduce that number to zero, by forced conversion or Kalashnikov. 

On August 15th the IS fighters in Kocho summoned everyone to the village school and separated the men from the women and children. Nadia watched from a second-floor window as they marched the men away. They slaughtered 312 in an hour, including six of Nadia’s brothers and stepbrothers. They murdered the older women, too, including Nadia’s mother. They forced the young women and children onto buses and took them to Mosul, IS’s main stronghold in Iraq, which, as 1843 went to press, was under siege by Iraqi government forces. 

Fleeing hell

Yazidi refugees crossing into Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq

Nadia was shut in a building with 1,000 other families. The women were sick with fear; they knew what was coming. The fighters were about to divide the spoils. A man came up to Nadia and said he wanted to take her. She looked up and saw that he was enormous, “like a monster”. “I cried out that I was too young and he was huge. He kicked and beat me. A few minutes later, another man came up to me…I saw that he was a little smaller. I begged for him to take me.”

The jihadist who took Nadia told her to convert to Islam. She refused. One day, he asked for her hand in “marriage”. She said she was ill. A few days later, he forced her to get dressed and put on make-up. “Then, on that terrible night, he did it.”

From then on, she was raped daily. When she tried to flee, a guard stopped her, forced her to strip and put her in a room with several guards, “who proceeded to commit their crime until I fainted”. She finally escaped when her captor left a door unlocked. She could not return home, because IS still controlled her village. Eventually, she found sanctuary in Germany, where she now lives. 

Temporary refuge
Women and children in a makeshift camp after escaping from IS jihadists

I first heard about Nadia from Amal, whom I was interviewing for a different article. (It was about free speech; Clooney had just got another client, a graft-exposing journalist called Khadija Ismayilova, out of prison in Azerbaijan.) Over lunch at a club in Notting Hill, she outlined Nadia’s story, and explained how the two of them were planning to put IS leaders in the dock. 

The evidence of genocide is exceptionally clear-cut, she pointed out. Not only are there mass graves and eyewitnesses, but IS has boasted about its intentions, filmed its massacres and posted videos of them online. In the case of the Yazidis, IS propaganda was chillingly specific. An article in Dabiq, an IS newsletter, says of this “pagan minority” that “their continual existence…is a matter that Muslims should question as they will be asked about it on Judgment Day.”

Another leaflet explains that enslaving kuffar (infidel) women is in accordance with sharia(Islamic law). It also answers what one must assume are common questions, such as: 

•  “Is it permissible to beat a female slave?” [Answer: Yes]; 
•  “Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female slave who has not reached puberty?” Answer: “[Yes]; however if she is not fit for intercourse, then it is enough to enjoy her without [that].”
•  “Is it permissible to sell a female captive?” Answer: “It is permissible to buy, sell, or gift female captives and slaves, for they are merely property.”

Despite such overwhelming evidence, putting IS leaders on trial will be hard. For one thing, they are tricky to capture. For another, international law moves slowly and often faces geopolitical roadblocks. 

Clooney’s first priority is to gather as much evidence as possible before it is lost. Some of this she does herself, painstakingly recording interviews with survivors (“the most harrowing witness statements I’ve ever taken,” she says). At the same time, she is pressing the UN Security Council to order a formal investigation on the ground, with a proper budget to excavate mass graves and collect DNA and documentary evidence (certificates of slave ownership, for example).

Ideally, she would like IS leaders to stand trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s permanent human-rights court in The Hague. “If the ICC can’t prosecute the world’s most evil terror group, what is it there for?” she asks. However, she is open to other options, such as a hybrid court backed by the UN and the government of Iraq, so long as it meets international standards of justice.

Getting governments to co-operate is tricky. Most agree in principle that IS should be brought to justice. But Russia and Iraq are doubtless nervous about what investigators might unearth, and others drag their feet. (Britain is an honourable exception). Clooney is trying to shame them all into action.

A few weeks after lunching with Clooney, I flew into Iraqi Kurdistan to find out more about Murad’s people. I could not visit her village: it would have been both suicidal (since IScontrolled it) and pointless (since all its Yazidi inhabitants were either dead, or had run away, or were captives of IS). Instead, I headed for Mount Sinjar, the craggy stronghold of the Yazidis, near Iraq’s border with Syria. This is where thousands of Yazi­­dis fled when IS first swept across the Nineveh plain. The jihadists were prevented from capturing it only through a combination of NATO air power and Kurdish boots on the ground. It is a sanctuary of sorts, though IS was still sporadically shelling it when I visited.