ISIS Genocide of Yazidis: ‘Girls As Young as 9 Were Raped, As Were Pregnant Women’

By Michael W. Chapman

The Islamic radicals that comprise ISIS are committing genocide against the Yazidis in Iraq and Syria and, according to the United Nations, women and girls as young as nine are being sold as slaves to ISIS soldiers who regularly beat them and rape them, re-sell them, and, if they try to escape, kill them.

As the U.N. Human Rights Council has reported, “While held by ISIS fighters, Yazidi women and girls over the age of nine are subjected to brutal sexual violence. Most of those interviewed reported violent daily rapes by their fighter-owners. Some were handcuffed behind their backs during the rapes while others had their hands and legs tied to the corners of the beds.”

“Little, if anything, protects against rape,” said the U.N. “Girls as young as nine were raped, as were pregnant women.”.......To Read More.....