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Why Slavery?

I Was a Yazidi Slave

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS North America

In August 2014 an Islamic State massacre of unimaginable proportions took place among the Yazidi people in Sinjar, northern Iraq. Young Yazidi women were separated from the old and taken to the Galaxy Cinema in Mosul. There they were paraded, selected, enslaved, tortured and systematically raped. Some were only 11 years old. We follow the Yazidi women's journey to recovery and ask how survivors of sexual violence can find justice and a path to rehabilitation. This is their story. Show less

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