Iraq’s Sole Yazidi Lawmaker Says 25,000 Girls Abducted By ISIL To Be Raped, Sold

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http://www.juancole.com/2014/10/yazidi-lawmaker-abducted.html



A Yazidi girl fleeing violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in mid-August.

Iraq’s Sole Yazidi Lawmaker Says 25,000 Girls Abducted By ISIL To Be Raped, Sold
By contributors | Oct. 11, 2014
By Freshta Jalalzai and Luke Johnson via RFE/RL

Iraq's only ethnic Yazidi member of parliament says that the human rights situation in her country is "deteriorating," with Islamic State (IS) militants kidnapping, raping, and selling Yazidi women.

"They are still without any shelter. They are sleeping on the streets. The situation is not good and the winter is [advancing], and it's raining, actually, in Iraq [now]. So the situation is deteriorating," legislator Vian Dakhil told RFE/RL in an October 8 telephone interview from Iraq's Kurdish region.

Dakhil, who has been cited by U.S. President Barack Obama, was named the winner of the 2014 Anna Politkovskaya Award on October 6 by the organization Reach All Women in War. The award, named after the murdered Russian journalist, honors women working to help those trapped in conflict.

The lawmaker, who is currently recovering from injuries she suffered in an August 12 helicopter crash on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, said that while IS militants have forced Christian women from their homes, Yazidi women often suffer worse fates.

(video added by Juan Cole)

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. 25,000 kids... so 25,000 parents aren't pissed off, ready to fight to the death?

You think that 10,000 fathers would be grouping with guns just seething in anger by now... but they are going to let some other country handle it?

Something is wrong with this picture...

[KoKo]

2. Don't know about this 25,000.

We were told of thousands stranded on that mountain..and, that turned out not to be true.

I don't criticize this writer and Juan Cole is respected...and there hundreds of thousands of refugees now in Syria and on the Turkish border suffering. I guess it's the photo of the little blond girl with blue eyes that makes me feel there is some exaggeration there. Pick a photo of a western looking child and it will bring attention to the terrible situation with refugees thrown out of their homes and hopefully bring some aid or at least get the UN involved. Not that there's much they can do at this point but give world attention to this disaster.

If I were any minority group over there I would be pushing for aid and relief any way I could by trying to get attention (even with exaggeration)...but, USA will still be bombing and what more can we do except put soldiers in which will make the situation worse.

What a mess...