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Go Worldwide? Daesh Begin Women, Children Export as Sex Slaves

© AFP 2023 / Piroschka Van De WouwA holds a sign calling to "Stop ISIS" (ISIS fir Islamic State) on August 13, 2014 as she takes part in a demonstration called by Kurds in support of the Yezidis and the Christians in Iraq, in Arnhem, The Netherlands.
A holds a sign calling to Stop ISIS (ISIS fir Islamic State) on August 13, 2014 as she takes part in a demonstration called by Kurds in support of the Yezidis and the Christians in Iraq, in Arnhem, The Netherlands. - Sputnik International
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Daesh terrorists are engaged in the widespread sale of captured Yazidi women as sex slaves abroad, the Kurdish network Rudaw reported.

A file picture taken on August 13, 2014, shows displaced Iraqi families from the Yazidi community crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border at the Fishkhabur crossing, in northern Iraq - Sputnik International
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Mihemma Halil, the mayor of the Iraqi town of Sinjar, said, citing freed Yazidi women, that the terrorists were selling their female prisoners to buyers in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Libya, adding that some of the buyers were Chechens.

“So far we have not been able to find out exactly how these women are taken out of Iraq and Syria, but we believe they are smuggled across the border,” he said.

Mihemma Halil also said that many Kurdish women had been set free for ransom.

“The abductors often let their victims keep their cellphones so that they can call their families and ask for the money,” Halil said.

If the relatives manage to put together the required sum, which often runs into tens of thousands of dollars, then middlemen come into play to arrange the exchange.

According to Kurdish authorities 6,255 Yazidis have so far been abducted by terrorists. A total of 3,878, including nearly 1,800 women and children, remain captive.

Daesh is a Sunni militant group, which seized large territories in Syria and Iraq, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. The group is known for its excessive brutality as well as for recruiting young people from all over the world, primarily via social media.

Daesh terrorists have committed genocide against Iraq's Yazidis, while carrying out war crimes and ethnic cleansing against other minorities.

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