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Daesh odious slave trade exposed
MARIA DUARTE is shattered by a documentary that exposes the repugnant inhumanity of Isis
sabaya
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Sabaya (15)
Directed by Hogir Hirori
“Daesh feel they have the right to use Sabaya girls as personal slaves. To rape them and sell them. Many of the girls commit suicide to escape the hell they’ve been in,” reveals a member of The Yazidi Home Centre in Syria, which carries out dangerous rescue missions in this powerful and harrowing documentary by Hogir Hirori.
The Kurdish film-maker (acting as writer-director, cinematographer, editor and producer) follows the non-profit organisation’s Mahmud and Ziyad, who with just a gun and a mobile phone enter one of the most dangerous camps in the Middle East – al-Hol Camp in Syria – to save Yazidi young women, called Sabaya (sex slaves), hidden there by the Daesh (Isis) which had kidnapped them following the massacre of the Yazidis in northern Iraq in 2014.
Nothing can really prepare you for the horrors and inhumanity suffered by these young women abducted at the ages of 12 to 14 to be at the service of Isis fighters who treat them as their property. Many having children fathered by them.
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