Last month, it was discovered that a German foreign ISIS fighter had used his Facebook in an effort to sell two different women for $8,000. Now, this callous sex slave business has made its way onto phone apps such as Telegram and WhatsApp.
An activist with Iraq’s persecuted Yazidi community shared with The Associated Press an advertisement for a young Yazidi woman that read: “Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old… Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon.”
Photos obtained by the AP depict for-sale girls dressed in finery, with some in heavy makeup. They stare somberly at the camera. Some are barely teenagers. Not one looks older than 30.
As ISIS continues to lose ground, their grasp over these young prisoners grow fiercer. When villages are freed, its girls are nowhere to be found, as they are dragged deeper and deeper into what remains of ISIS-controlled territory. Photos of them are placed on a slave database utilized by the radical jihadists. Their “owners” names are posted in order to avert girls from escaping through ISIS checkpoints.
Mirza Danai, founder of the German-Iraqi aid organization Luftbrucke Irak, spoke with The Associate Press and stated:
“They register every slave, every person under their owner, and therefore if she escapes, every Daesh control or checkpoint, or security force - they know that this girl ... has escaped from this owner,' said Danai…”
It’s relatively impossible for the innocent hostages to escape.
But one girl did: 18-year old Lamiya Aji Bashar. She ran to the border, her fifth attempt at fleeing, with two other young girls while ISIS fighters chased them. Unfortunately a land mine exploded, and two girls accompanying Lamiya were instantly killed. It left Lamiya blind in one eye, and her face permanently scarred. But when speaking to the Associated Press from her uncles home in northern Iraq she said “Even if I had lost both eyes, it would have been worth it… because I have survived them.”
That is what I call a brave and strong young woman. Not the feminists fighting to breast-feed in public.
A Yazidi community is working to free a projected 3,000 women and girls that were seized in 2014 when their villages in northern Iraq were overran by ISIS in an extermination attempt. So far, approximately 2,554 have been saved, but an ISIS crackdown has slowed their pace, making only 39 liberations possible over the last six weeks.
To make matters worse, money used to pay for smugglers or ransoms in order to save the girls is running out. Head of the Yazidi assistance committee in northern Iraq told The Associated Press that no one is stepping up on behalf of these girls, and that “the Iraqi government, nor international charities or other countries are helping [them].”
They’re all on their own, and they shouldn’t be.
Daily Mail reported:
Kurdistan's besieged regional government has slowed reimbursement to families who have paid off smugglers or ransom demands, Andrew Slater of the Yazidi advocacy group Yazda said.
'Rescues are slowing, they're going to stop. People are running out of money, I have dozens of families who are tens of thousands of dollars in debt,' Slater said. 'There are still thousands of women and kids in captivity but it's getting harder and harder to get them out.'
This is part of the long list of reasons that our nation must unite together against the radical Islamic State. But yet there is complete silence from the liberal media, feminists and our president.
But I guess he’s too preoccupied with practicing his golf swing to really care about this.