Zainab Bangura, the U.N.'s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, recently toured refugee camps in the Middle-East and returned with horror stories told by the victims of the terror group's evil.
"They are institutionalizing sexual violence," she told the Middle East Eye. "The brutalization of women and girls is central to their ideology."
She told of how “pretty virgins” were captured by jihadists after they conquer new areas.
After attacking a village, IS fighters kill all men and boys over 14 and capture the youngest, prettiest virgins, which are sent to their stronghold, Raqqa.
“They often take three or four girls each and keep them for a month or so, until they grow tired of a girl, when she goes back to market.
“At slave auctions, buyers haggle fiercely, driving down prices by disparaging girls as flat-chested or unattractive.
“We heard about one girl who was traded 22 times, and another, who had escaped, told us that the sheikh who had captured her wrote his name on the back of her hand to show that she was his 'property'."
It is estimated that between 3,000 and 5,000 women are enslaved by IS. Most of the slaves are women from the Yazidi minority, who are persecuted as “devil worshippers” by jihadists.
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