Women were forced into sexual slavery, and boys were taken to be indoctrinated in jihadi ideology. 9News
Hopes surged last month during a two-week pause in the US-led coalition's assault on Baghouz that some of the estimated 3000 Yazidis still unaccounted for would emerge.Hussein Karo, who heads the Yazidi Rescue Bureau in Iraq's regional Kurdish government, said only 47 Yazidis were rescued.
She was sold 17 times. One of her owners, a Swede, would lock her in the home for days without food while he went to fight. Another man, an Albanian, stomped on her hands in his military boots, after she scolded him for buying a 9-year-old slave girl. "I cannot even look at anything the color green anymore," said a frail Ms Hammo, her face gaunt, and her hands scarred from the abuse.
Both Ms Farman and Ms Hammo, now staying in bleak camps for the displaced in Iraq, said international airstrikes had killed some Yazidis living as slaves in the caliphate. The first time she tried to flee, she slipped out with a group of other Yazidi women to the countryside. "
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