A Yazidi teenage girl was captured by ISIS Islamists, who raped her repeatedly, and exchanged her between themselves. She eventually escaped her tormentors. Fearing capture again, she set herself on fire in order to make herself so undesirable that the Islamist men would never abuse her again.
What was the sin of this poor girl to have suffered so much and to have been driven to disfigure herself? Her people, the Yazidi, are an ancient people with a culture and religion that goes back thousands of years. And now it has been decimated in a world that does not tolerate minority religions.
A girl had to pay the price for the evil of men who in the name of their religion believe they have license to rape and kill with impunity. A girl had to pay the price for an indifferent, cruel world that stood idly by in silence while genocide unfolded. Thousands of Yazidi girls and women are still held captive, raped and abused daily.
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