ISIS "sex slave" saved
Image Source: International Buisness Times
A Yazidi –of Kuridish religion- girl has been kidnapped as a sex slave by Isis.
According to an aid worker she was raped by at least 10 men and will be murdered if she becomes pregnant.
She was taken to a refugee camp in Iraq after she and more than 200 Yazidi women, children and the elderly were freed near Kirkuk, Iraq after being held captive for more than eight months.
The girl is now safe and is now being treated in a hospital in Germany.
The act was a war tactic.
Dr Samantha Nutt, founder and executive director of War Child Canada told the International Buisness Tims that brutality towards women is a "pattern of abuse and intimidation" that is used routinely in war.
"These primeval mechanisms are being used to threaten, abuse and traumatise," she said.
"It's an attempt to erase an entire generation.
When you rape a girl, it's an entire family decimated, if not an entire community."
Children born from rape suffer from ongoing abuse and violence.
"Even at school they are stigmatised by teachers and fellow students.
In Uganda, children who are a product of rape by [Lord's Resistance Army rebels] have been locked in cages or set on fire, because they are so closely associated with the aggressor and the trauma."
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