Thousands of men have been executed and hundreds of young girls have been sold into slavery. The jihadi extremists' sole intention? To dehumanize the Yazidi people and eradicate the race. The ancient tribe can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia and, Iraq and are among other religious groups targeted by ISIL militants, who view them as devil-worshippers.
#Syria "@Free_Media_Hub: Yazidi victims of the gangs of ISIS http://t.co/klgoBLM5wG pic.twitter.com/P5tNzkMHao"
— petra (@1954candanga) September 25, 2015
But the campaign to save the Yazidi people dropped off the news agenda, following the beheadings of western hostages at the hands of 'home-grown' Islamic State militants, who had fled the UK and other countries to join the ranks of the jihadist group.
Meanwhile, a seventeen year old from Britain has reignited the campaign to save the Yazidi community in northern Iraq and has organized a petition to send to the British government, pleading for the Prime Minister to do more.
The campaign may indeed be helped along after news has emerged that a young Yazidi girl, as revealed in the British media, was held captive and forced into slavery by a high-ranking American citizen turned Islamic State commander.
19 year Nada, told the Daily Mail that US citizen Abdullah al-Amriki bought her at a slave auction in the ISIL-controlled capital of Raqqa, in Syria, after she was captured in the northern Iraqi city of Tal-Afar, in August 2014.
The 23 year old man boasted to her that he had women from all over the world, who wanted to join him in Syria and had bought nine girls in total, selling seven of them on. Nada was forced to live with him in a heavily guarded house in Aleppo with another Yazidi girl and her son.
Nada's account sheds light on her captor's behavior — and paranoia that he would one day be captured himself.
"He was always ordering people to move and how to make a plan. He always carried a pistol and an AK47… He also carried a policeman's stick which he used to beat me and the boy [another prisoner] with."
Nada described the ISIL commander as being so frightened of being caught, that he kept a vial of poison in his pocket, so he could commit suicide if his enemies ever took him alive.
The teenager was held captive for 20 days and now lives in the US. Nada is one of the luckier Yazidi girls to escape captivity — but must now live with the legacy, like hundreds of other young women and girls who were forced to endure physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the jihadist extremists.
Don't forget the #Yazidi children on Mt. #Sinjar, they r waiting for your support http://t.co/Xg0vz8IkjQ @YazdaOrg pic.twitter.com/wW7BxjCoLy
— Save #Yazidi #Ezidi (@Ezidi2) September 27, 2015
The petition by a young Yazidi girl, living in the UK, calls on the British government to do more to help her friends, living in the Yazidi community in Northern Iraq, and has gained over 200,000 signatures, yet their fate appears to continue to get worse.
