Thread by @AzzatAlsaleem

#YazidiGenocide survivor: I was pregnant and taken as sex slave with my five years daughter by SuNn! Neighbors.
After ISIS killed my husband and almost all members of our family I decided to suicide,I took poison but didn’t die, I lost my unborn baby.
I was sold many times @POTUS

ISIS fighters would offer us as gifts. In the evenings, they would get together and trade Yezidi women, and have their fun with us,” Samiyah recalls.

‘I ran for a day and a night’: Yazidi girls share blood-curdling stories of ISIS slavery. #YazidiGenocide @TarekFatah

2)A woman who spent 3 years as ISIS slave and a girl who was only 5 yrs when taken are among the lucky few to have returned home, while 100s of Yezidi girls remain in captivity.
Samiyah was pregnant when Islamic State militants attacked her village in 2014
#YazidiGenocide @POTUS

3)After 3 yrs of slavery in the IS Syrian stronghold of Deir ez-Zor she managed to break free and was finally brought home
She said of her despair when IS ransacked the village, capturing her husband and almost all of her family. To escape her fate, she chose to take poison.

4)Though it proved not enough to kill her,it was fatal to her unborn child.
“I was left alone with my mother. So I took poison, I decided it was better to die. When they caught me, I thought that since my family, my husband and my house were gone, it would be better to die @POTUS

4)she joined some 3,000 Yezidi women/girls, turned into sex slave. Seeing Yezidis as devil-worshippers, their IS captors treated the girls as commodities.

“The men would offer us as gifts. In the evenings, they would get together and trade the women, and have their fun with us,

6)IS brutality against the Yezidis was recognized as Genocide by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, investigating human rights abuses in the protracted conflict.
#YazidiGenocide survivor fled during one of the bombings, breaking the window of her sealed cell.

7)She said she ran for “a day and a night” before a local family sheltered her and told her where the liberated forces were.She was able to reach these Forces as soon as she reached them, and within two weeks she had made her way home but without her daughter #YazidiGenocide

8)daughter is now 9 yrs,and her mother found herself in a state of utter despair when all her family members either perished or went missing,including her 5 yrs daughter.
“It was indescribable for me. Life turned into endless suffering, tears,hunger.I couldn’t do anything but cry

9)Nevertheless the mother did not give up hope of finding her 5 years daughter . She posted the girl’s photo on Facebook, and everything changed overnight when someone contacted her relatives, reporting having seen Her daughter.
#YazidiGenocide
#OngoingYazidiGenocide @POTUS

10)In order to be reunited with her daughter, she first had to collect money,a ransom demanded by the human traffickers.

“The seller was in Turkey, but said he would deliver her to Baghdad. We paid a big amount of money in order to bring her back #YazidiGenocide

11) After four years away from her mother, the daughter did not recognize her mother at first. The child seems happy, but it will undoubtedly take her some time yet to adjust to a normal life after all that she has been through.
#YazidiGenocide
#YazidiGenocideCommemoration