cfr magazine

A home to latest news on politics, entertainment, sports, technology, education, business and zeeworld movie series

Saturday, 23 April 2016

ISIS Executes 250 Girls For Refusing To Become Sex Slaves

 ISLAMIC State militants have reportedly executed 250 women after
they refused to take part in sexual jihad.
Reports have emerged that the girls were killed in the IS stronghold of
Mosul after they refused temporary marriages to fighters and become
sex slaves.


The girls were murdered, some alongside their families, following their
refusal to abide by the militants’ demands in Iraq’s second largest
city, The Hindu reported.

Kurdish Democratic Party spokesman Said Mamuzini told London-
based Kurdish news agency AhlulBayt that girls were ordered to
accept the temporary marriages or face certain death.

“At least 250 girls have so far been executed by the IS for refusing to
accept the practice of sexual jihad, and sometimes the families of the
girls were also executed for rejecting to submit to IS’s request,” he
said.

An official from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party Ghayas
Surchi said women and human rights are continually being violated in
IS-held territories.

Not only are women not allowed to go out alone but they cannot
choose their partners.
Stories of IS brutality, particularly towards women, are not uncommon.
Last November, the world was horrified when the United Nations
testimony revealed how a woman was burnt alive by Islamic State for
refusing an extreme sex act.

Zainab Bangura, the UN’s special representative on sexual violence in
conflict, said IS militants were institutionalising sexual violence,
revealing how the brutalisation of women and girls is central to their
ideology.”

She told of how “pretty virgins” were captured by jihadists to be used
as sex slaves and were often sold several times, while young boys
and men were killed.

In one case, a 20-year-old girl was burned alive because she refused
to perform an extreme sex act.
And in March this year, German doctor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan revealed
more harrowing details of how women and young girls are treated
under Islamic State.

He said one young girl set herself on fire to make herself less
attractive to her jihadist captors, while another eight-year-old was

No comments:

Post a Comment