ISIS fanatics have executed 19 women for refusing to have sex with its fighters, a Kurdish official has said.
He
claimed the women were being held hostage in Islamic State's stronghold
of Mosul, Iraq, which the terror group seized in June last year.
Meanwhile
a UN envoy investigating Islamic State's vile sex trade has said 'girls
get peddled like barrels of petrol' and one can be bought by six
different men.
She
also verified a disturbing ISIS document which suggested the extremists
sell the Yazidi and Christian women and children they have abducted,
with girls aged just one to nine-years-old fetching the most money.
ISIS
stormed the Sinjar district in northern Iraq last year and captured
hundreds of women belonging to the Yazidi community, who the Islamists
view as heretics.
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Barbaric: ISIS fanatics have reportedly executed 19 women (file photo) for refusing to have sex with its fighters
Enslaved: A UN envoy investigating
Islamic State's vile sex trade says 'girls get peddled like barrels of
petrol' (file photo purports to show captured girls in ISIS territory)
The
sex slaves who somehow escaped Islamic State's clutches have told of
how they were forced to marry fighters who physically and sexually
abused them.
It is not known whether the 19 women executed - supposedly just a few days ago - were Yazidis or not.
They
were put to death because they refused to 'participate in the practice
of sexual jihad,' a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party in Mosul
told Iraqi News.
Said Mimousini also claimed issues around money and the distribution of women have caused a rift within ISIS's ranks.
In October, the terror group released a pamphlet which showed how much it charged for the purchase of its female captives.
Despicable: The UN's special envoy for
sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Bangura, said: 'Sometimes these
fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars
of ransom'
Its
authenticity was debated until April, when the UN's special envoy for
sexual violence in conflict confirmed it was genuine during a trip to
Iraq.
Zainab Bangura told Bloomberg: 'The girls get peddled like barrels of petrol... One girl can be sold and bought by five or six different men.
'Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom.'
The
shocking document described the women it abducted as 'items' and
claimed a decrease in demand of 'women and cattle' affected 'Islamic
State revenues as well as the funding of mujahideen in the battlefield'.
It
then gives the prices of women and children by age, with one to
nine-year-olds costing the most - around £110. The older the women, the
lower the price.
Escape: ISIS stormed the Sinjar
district (pictured in August) in northern Iraq last year and captured
hundreds of women belonging to the Yazidi community
Exodus: The Yazidi people (pictured in
Sinjar last year) practice an ancient religion which is a mixture of
Islam and Christianity - and ISIS view them as heretics
The
pamphlet - published on October 16 - goes on to say: 'Customers are
allowed to purchase only three items with the exception of customers
from Turkey, Syria and Gulf countries.
Bangura said the fighters get to choose first and then 'wealthy Middle-Easterners are allowed to
The
UN envoy has previously said the best looking Yazidi virgins are sent
to depraved slave auctions in Islamic State's adopted capital of Raqqa
in Syria, where they are stripped naked and sold to the highest bidder.
They have a marriage bureau which organizes all of these ‘marriages’ and the sale of women... They have a price list
She
said Islamic State, which controls over four million people living
inside its territory in Iraq and Syria, is unlike any other terror
group.
Bangura
added: 'They [ISIS] have a machinery... They have a manual on how you
treat these women. They have a marriage bureau which organizes all of
these ‘marriages’ and the sale of women... They have a price list.'
An
ISIS video released in November last year appeared to show an ISIS 'sex
slave market' where fighters can choose among different Yazidi girls
who are priced according to 'desirable' physical features.
Since
then, several women who managed to escape their abusive captors have
told of the pain and suffering they endured under ISIS rule.
Only
last month, three Yazidi women who were forced to become jihadi said
they were raped 'five times a day' after being traded as human cargo.
Twisted: An ISIS video released in
November last year appeared to show an ISIS 'sex slave market' where
excited fighters bargained over Yazidi sex slaves
The
young women - Bushra, 21, Munira, 17, and Noor, 22 - were tied up, gang
raped and burnt with cigarettes after being forced to marry ISIS
fighters. Their names have been changed to protect their identity.
After
escaping Iraq, the women were flown to the UK by international charity
AMAR, which helps people rebuild their lives following conflict.
Bushra, who tried to kill herself when she was sold to an ISIS extremist, said: 'The man who had bought me took me to hospital.
He
raped me about five times a day... My sister was barely 14 when they
raped her... I could hear her screaming but I couldn't do anything as I
was tied up
Bushra, former Yazidi sex slave
'He
told me he was going to rape me that same day, however ill I made
myself. He took me home, tied up my hands and feet, and raped me.
'He
raped me about five times a day. My sister was barely 14 when they
raped her... I could hear her screaming but I couldn't do anything as I
was tied up.'
Thousands
of women and girls from the Yazidi community - an ancient Kurdish
ethnic group based in the north of Iraq - have had their lives shattered
by ISIS fighters, Amnesty International has said.
The
organisation says hundreds, and possibly thousands, have been forced to
marry, 'sold' or given as 'gifts' to Islamic State fighters or their
supporters - and many held as sexual slaves are girls younger than 14.
Amnesty's researcher Donatella Rovera spoke to more than 40 women who were fortunate enough to escape ISIS captivity in Iraq.
She
discovered that some of these abused women and girls were so severely
and irreparably traumatised that they have been driven to end their own
lives.
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