About 19 women have reportedly been executed by Islamic State fanatics over their refusal to have sex with jihadists.
A
Kurdish official who reported the incident claimed the women were being
held hostage in the Islamic State Mosul, Iraq, which the terror group
seized in June last year.
Meanwhile a UN envoy investigating Islamic State's vile sex trade has said 'girls get peddled like barrels of petrol' and one can be bought by six different men.
Daily Mail
reports that she also verified a disturbing ISIS document which
suggested the extremists sell the Yazidi and Christian women and
children they have abducted, with girls aged just one to nine-years-old
fetching the most money.
A UN
envoy investigating Islamic State's vile sex trade says 'girls get
peddled like barrels of petrol' (file photo purports to show captured
girls in ISIS territory)(Daily Mail)
ISIS stormed the
Sinjar district in northern Iraq last year and captured hundreds of
women belonging to the Yazidi community, who the Islamists view as
heretics.
The sex slaves who somehow escaped
Islamic State's clutches have told of how they were forced to marry
fighters who physically and sexually abused them.
It is not known whether the 19 women executed - supposedly just a few days ago - were Yazidis or not.
They
were put to death because they refused to 'participate in the practice
of sexual jihad,' a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party in Mosul
told Iraqi News.
Said Mimousini also claimed issues around money and the distribution of women have caused a rift within ISIS's ranks.
In October, the terror group released a pamphlet which showed how much it charged for the purchase of its female captives.
Its
authenticity was debated until April, when the UN's special envoy for
sexual violence in conflict confirmed it was genuine during a trip to
Iraq.
Zainab Bangura told Bloomberg: 'The girls get peddled like barrels of petrol... One girl can be sold and bought by five or six different men.
'Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom.'
The
shocking document described the women it abducted as 'items' and
claimed a decrease in demand of 'women and cattle' affected 'Islamic
State revenues as well as the funding of mujahideen in the battlefield'.
ISIS'S despicable 'price list' for Yazidi and Christian slaves(Daily Mail)
It then gives the
prices of women and children by age, with one to nine-yr-olds costing
the most - around £110. The older the women, the lower the price.
The pamphlet - published on October 16 - goes on to say: 'Customers are allowed to purchase only three items with the exception of customers from Turkey, Syria and Gulf countries.
Bangura said the fighters get to choose first and then 'wealthy Middle-Easterners are allowed to
The
UN envoy has previously said the best looking Yazidi virgins are sent
to depraved slave auctions in Islamic State's adopted capital of Raqqa
in Syria, where they are stripped naked and sold to the highest bidder.
She
said Islamic State, which controls over four million people living
inside its territory in Iraq and Syria, is unlike any other terror
group.
Bangura added: 'They [ISIS] have a
machinery... They have a manual on how you treat these women. They have a
marriage bureau which organizes all of these ‘marriages’ and the sale
of women... They have a price list.'
An ISIS video released in November last year appeared to show an ISIS 'sex slave market' where fighters can choose among different Yazidi girls who are priced according to 'desirable' physical features.
Since
then, several women who managed to escape their abusive captors have
told of the pain and suffering they endured under ISIS rule.
