US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria have freed a Yazidi woman held for ten years by ISIS fighters who raped her and forced her to marry extremists.
The Guardian reports it.
The 24-year-old woman was rescued along with her two children during a security operation by Kurdish fighters in Syria's al-Hawl camp, which is home to tens of thousands of people, mostly wives and children of fighters of the Islamic State.
The young woman, originally from the village of Hardan, in the heart of the Yazidi area of Sinjar in Iraq, was kidnapped by ISIS during the massacres committed in 2014, during which thousands of men were killed and many women and teenagers were kidnapped and kept as slaves of the sex.
"They destroyed my life. I was bought and sold like a sheep," the woman said, adding that at one point she was with six other women in the house of an elderly man named Abu Jaafar, who beat her if she he rejected it.
“Women who resisted rape were killed,” she said.
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