Posted on 11/04/2014 1:42:19 PM PST by Citizen Zed
When the Islamic State took over large parts of northern Iraq this summer, including the areas where the minority Yazidi community lives, the U.S. carried out air strikes and halted the advance of the extremists.
Still, thousands of Yazidi women and girls have gone missing over the past few months and there are now reports they are being sold by the Islamic State as sex slaves.
Nuri Khalaf, a representative of the Yazidi tribes in Iraq's northern province of Sinjar, has been making the rounds in Washington, pleading with U.S. officials for help.
He also stopped by NPR's offices. When asked if many Yazidi women were being trafficked, he said, "That's real, it's real. Our girls have been sold for $300, $400 dollars, $500 dollars. It's real. It's happening."
Khalaf explained through an interpreter that he had to spend more than $9,000 to buy back his 13-year-old niece and five other women and girls after they were kidnapped by the Islamic State and forced to watch family members killed and abused.
He said he doesn't have any faith in Iraqi or Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq, and that's why he and several other Yazidi representatives came to Washington.
"Iraq is our country but America was the one who came and liberated us from Saddam's regime, so it's the US responsibility to save us too," said Khalaf, referring to the 2003 invasion that ousted the Iraqi dictator.
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He’ll get no help from Obozo.
Not a word out of American “feminists”.
Not to belabor the obvious, but ISIS is a good bit worse than Saddam ever was.
ISIS is just the remnants of the Saddam regime that scampered into Syria ahead of the US armed forces in 2003. They laid in wait until we eventually pulled out of Iraq and now we are seeing the results.
I don’t really think that’s true. Saddam, for all his flaws, was a pretty secular guy. He had Christians in his government in high positions.
He protected Christians and Yezidis against Islamists, as part of the standard dictator practice of divide and conquer. Since the majority of his population was Shia, he stomped all over them and was by comparison less harsh on Christians, Yezidis and Sunnis. Kurds were a special case.
This is, BTW, exactly the same as Assad’s policy in Syria. You are comparatively less harsh on minorities, because they don’t threaten your power in the same way the majority does.
An interesting side effect of this policy is that when the majority comes to power, it views the minorities as having been supporters of the dictator, which they often were. So they then take their revenge.
islamonazis have sold the women into rape slavery.
Get used to it.
Kill them, or die trying.
Not even #BringBackOurGirls?
Oh yeah, forgot, these victims are white.
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