ICC Note:

In a recent interview, a displaced Yazidi mother spoke of her experience under ISIS control and the separation from her family. When ISIS took over her village two years ago, her husband disappeared and her two oldest sons were taken away to become ISIS militants. Her youngest son was later taken away at six years old and she receives haunting pictures of him with guns pointed at him.

3/17/2017 Iraq (Christian Post) – A displaced Iraqi mother has detailed how the Islamic State has been torturing her by sending photos and videos of her captured 6-year-old son with guns being pointed at him.

A Yazidi mother named Gule detailed in an interview with BBC how her family, like many other Yazidi families, was ripped apart when IS (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Deash) took over their homeland in northern Iraq in the summer of 2014.

As IS swept through Yazidi villages over two years ago and displaced over 360,000 Yazidis, the militants were known to have systematically separated girls, women and children from the men. Many of the Yazidi men were killed en masse, while the women and girls were forced into sexual slavery and the young boys were taken and trained to be jihadis or suicide bombers.

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