The Yazidi sex slaves risking death to flee from ISIS.
'Virgin. Beautiful. 12-years-old... she will be sold soon': The Yazidi sex slaves risking death to flee from ISIS thugs who trade girls on phone apps for up to £10,000 each.
- Activists are trying to free 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves by ISIS
- Fanatics sell Yazidis on encrypted apps such as Telegram and WhatsApp
- Some risk their lives or horrific injury to escape clutches of the extremists
The posting in Arabic is chilling. A girl for sale: 'Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon.'
The advertisement, along with others for kittens, tactical gear and weapons, appeared on an encrypted Telegram app and was shared with The Associated Press by an activist with Iraq's persecuted Yazidi community, which is trying to free an estimated 3,000 women and girls still held as sex slaves by ISIS extremists.
As ISIS loses control of one city after another in its self-styled caliphate, it is tightening its grip on its captives, taking the Yazidis deeper into its territory and selling them as chattel on popular encrypted apps such as Telegram and WhatsApp,
The extremists are targeting smugglers who rescue captives for assassination and are deploying a slave database with captives' photos and owners' names to prevent escape through checkpoints.
Thousands of Kurdish-speaking Yazidis were taken prisoner and thousands more were massacred when ISIS fighters overran their northern Iraqi villages in August 2014.
Since then, as the Yazidi captives have been conscripted into sexual slavery, smugglers have managed to free 2,554 women and girls.
They register every slave, every person under their owner, and therefore if she escapes, every Daesh control or checkpoint, or security force - they know that this girl ... has escaped from this owner,' said Danai, using a common acronym to refer to ISIS.
One of those girls is Lamiya Aji Bashar, who in March made her fifth attempt at escape, running to the border with ISIS fighters in pursuit.
A land mine exploded, and two Yazidi girls who were accompanying her were killed. The bomb left Lamiya blind in her right eye, her face scarred by melted skin.
The captives' odds of rescue grow slimmer each day.
Even when ISIS retreats from towns like Ramadi or Fallujah, the missing girls are nowhere to be found among the thousands of newly liberated civilians.
Rescues are slowing, they're going to stop. People are running out of money, I have dozens of families who are tens of thousands of dollars in debt,' Slater said. 'There are still thousands of women and kids in captivity but it's getting harder and harder to get them out.
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