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Yazidi's accuse Iraq of negligence in bid to find missing women sold as sex slaves
A Yazidi woman who escaped enslavement by Islamic State group militants, shows the injuries to her hands that was carried out by an Albanian who forced her to put her hands on hot asphalt, then stomped on them with his boots in a camp for displaced people outside Dahuk, Iraq
YAZIDI representatives accused Iraq of negligence today in failing to locate thousands of missing women amid the final battle to rid Syria of jihadists.
Thousands of Yazidis were massacred as Isis swept across large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014, capturing women and girls who were sold to jihadist fighters. The United Nations (UN) recognises the killings as a genocide against the Yazidis.
Sinjar in northern Iraq is the ancestral land for the Yazidis, however they have been effectively pushed out of the area. More than 3,000 women and girls remain missing after they were forced into sexual slavery by Isis. Around 5,000 men and boys are believed to have been slaughtered.
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