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"At least 250 girls have so far been executed by IS for refusing to accept the practice of sexual jihad, and sometimes the families of the girls were also executed for rejecting to submit to IS's request," a Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official from Mosul, Said Mamuzini, has told the Iranian news agency, ABNA.
That the ISIS has been forcing women into temporary marriage since the capture of Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul in June 2014 is already known. However the revelation by the KDP official that at least 250 girls have been killed for refusal to submit to the brutal IS’s so-called ‘sexual jihad’ (jihad-ul-nikah) first reported by ABNA on April 19 has shocked the world with the news being picked by news agencies across the globe.
A Mosul-based leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Ghayas Surchi also told ABNA that human rights are being widely violated in all IS-held territories, particularly the womens' rights as they're seen as commodities and they have no choice in choosing their spouses.
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Meanwhile, a report published by ABNA yesterday quoting the sole Kurdish Yazidi Member of the Iraqi Parliament, Vian Dakhil, said that a 12-year-old Yazidi girl, who was taken into IS slavery after the fall of Sinjar in August 2014, has managed to escape the terrorists group by putting sleeping pills in terrorists’ tea.
According MP Dakhil, the girl and her aunt, 17, were kept by IS in a house in Tel Afar district, west of Mosul in northern Iraq; after about four months of their captivity, they succeeded to flee the terrorists and arrive in Peshmerga-held areas.
The Kurdish MP revealed that the girls had asked the terrorists, who were guarding them, to give them sleeping pill as they could not sleep well. “Then, they put the medicine in militants’ tea and secured their escape after they fell asleep.”
Dakhil pointed out that the girl has reunited with her mother and sister in a refugee camp in Duhok province, Kurdistan Region; “but her two or three other sisters are yet in IS captivity.”