SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019

The brutal choice faced by

Yazidi sex slaves – abandon

their babies or be ostracised

Five years after Isis massacred the ethnic group in Iraq, survivors of

unspeakable atrocities still have pitiful futures

A child at a camp in Dohuk, Iraq, where survivors are in desperate need of basic amenities and mental health support (Women for
Women International)

MAYA OPPENHEIM

WOMEN’S CORRESPONDENT

Five years ago, Isis fighters committed arguably their most horrific crime – attacking the Sinjar region of
Iraq where the majority of the Yazidi population lived, rounding up and separating men and women.

Men were killed, children were abducted, Yazidi pilgrimage sites and houses of worship were destroyed.

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