Alwaght- Iraqi official has announced on Monday that more than 300 Yazidis, mostly women and children, were held hostage by ISIS terrorist group since August 2014, when the terrorist group occupied the city of Sinjar that Yazidis make up majority of its population.
“Over 300 Yazidi people, mostly women and children, are still being held by the ISIS organization,” IraqiNews.com cited Hussein Qaiada, an official of the office of abducted Yazidis, as saying. “ISIS treats them cruelly and exposes them to various types of abuse and torture,” Hussein Qaida added.
Describing dire condition for Yazidi minorities in ISIS-held areas, Qaida said “More than 100 Yazidis are heading outside the country every day.”
ISIS Terrorists in Iraq have created slave markets, trading and selling kidnapped women and children of Shiite, Christian and Yazidi religions, according to UN investigators.
At least 2,500 women and children have been imprisoned, sexually abused and sold for around $10 each by ISIS slavers.
The slave markets in the al-Quds area of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria have been used as a way of attracting new recruits to ISIS, the UN said according to a Times report.
