ISIS Executes 19 Women Who Refused To Have Sex With Fighters

• Young women are often kept as wives of the ISIS militants

The Islamic State Group has reportedly executed 19 women in Iraq’s Mosul for refusing to have sex with fighters, a Kurdish Democractic Party (KDP) official claimed, according to the Daily Mail.

The official further added that women were held hostage in Islamic State’s stronghold of Mosul, which was seized in June last year. “The captured women were put to death as they refused to ‘participate in the practice of sexual jihad’,” the official told Iraqi News. He also alleged that the Islamic State’s treatment of women and dealings with money were proving to be increasingly divisive within the organisation’s own ranks. The executions, which took place between 1st and 2nd August, however could not be independently verified.

Investigating ISIS’s sex trade, UN’s special envoy for sexual violence in conflict Zainab Bangura has told the Daily Mail that ‘girls get peddled like barrels of petrol’ and one can be bought by six different men. She added that there is also something called as a ‘price list’ that’s circulated among ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria.

The sex slaves who managed to somehow escape from the clutches of the ISIS have said that they were forced to marry fighters who sexually abused them. In October last year, the ISIS had reportedly released a pamphlet that mentioned how much it charged for the purchase of its female captives, according to the Daily Mail.
Source: Indian Express