I met my bully, the warrior of I SIS on a German road

I met my bully, the warrior of I SIS on a German road

A Janzid teenager, sold into slavery by the Islamic State, has told the BBC of the horror she had experienced after moving to Germany when she met her captain on the street. Ashwaq was only 14 years old when fighters of the Islamic State occupied northern Iraq, including where the Yazidi people live. They [...]

Ashwaq was only 14 years old when fighters of the Islamic State occupied northern Iraq, including where the Yazidi people live. They kept hundreds of women as sex slaves, among other things Ashwaq, who was sold for $100 to a man named Abu Humam.

Beat and raped, she managed to escape from there three months later and went to Germany with her mother and one of her brothers. A few months later, on a street in front of a store, she heard someone call her name.

Ashwaq told the BBC: Returning from school, a car stopped near me. He was in the front seat. He spoke to me in German and asked: Are you Ashwaq? I was so scared and I said, No, who are you? )

She told me he was answering: I know you're Ashwaq and I'm Abu Humam

Ashwaq tells how he started speaking in Arabic and asked him not to lie to him.

I know you, he said. And I know where you live and who you live with. He knew everything about my life in Germany.

She adds: I never believed that I could see someone like him in Germany.

I abandoned my family, my country, and went to Germany to forget my beating, pain and suffering. The last thing I expected was to see my grip, warrior of I SIS, and for him to know everything about me. )

Germany's federal prosecutor says Ashwaq reported the case to the police five days after it happened. Ashwaq says he has told investigators everything, including the terrible experience in Iraq.

The officers told him to call the police immediately if she sees Abu Humam again.

She says she's been waiting for a full month, but without a response from the police.

Scared to see her captain again and wanting to join her four sisters who had escaped I SIS, Ashwaq returned to northern Iraq, leaving the town of Schwebisch Gmund where he had hoped a new life would begin.

If you haven't experienced it yourself, you can't know what it means... to go straight to your heart. When a girl is violated by I Like, you can't imagine how it feels to see this man again. )

Frauke Kohler, spokeswoman for the highest court in Germany, says police have done everything to find Abu Humam, but their efforts were unsuccessful.

Activists in Germany say Ashwaq's case is not isolated.

Düzen Tekkal, an activist and founder of Hawar. Help, an organisation in Berlin that conducts the Yazid campaign for rights, says she's heard of other cases when refugee women Yazid recognized the warriors of I SIS in Germany.

Ashwaq himself says he has heard similar cases from other Yazid women who have escaped ISIS fighters. But not all cases are reported to the police.

Now Ashwaq lives in a Uzid camp in Kurdistan. She says she wants to continue her schooling and she and her family want to leave that country.

We fear the people of I SISit's father told the BBC.

But experience in Germany has had a profound impact on Ashwaq. Even if the world were destroyed I would never return to Germany again, she says.

Like many other Yazid, her family is now applying to live in Australia as part of a programme for women raped by ISIS.

♪ RJ, Periscope

 

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