Yazidi Woman Pleads With US to Hold IS Accountable

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Yazidi Woman Pleads With US to Hold IS Accountable

WASHINGTON—

The words of the young Yazidi woman echoed through the silent Senate hearing room, onlookers and grizzled lawmakers rapt in attention.

Without hesitation, Nadia Murad told them how in August 2014, Islamic State fighters attacked Sinjar, killed her mother and six of her brothers in a single day, and ended life as she knew it. She was 19 years old.

“I was raped and sold and was abused, but I was lucky,” she said through her interpreter. “Girls at the age of nine were raped, as well.”

Murad spoke of how she learned to live one hour at a time, treasuring every minute she was not sold or raped by another IS fighter. She spoke of how, after her first attempt at an escape, she was gang raped as a punishment. And she told them how she finally made it to safety with the help of a family in Mosul.

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