the soldiers know that we are taking a risk. our rate is a perilous one. that you, hon. it's may no longer have a strong presence here, but individually they're still working everywhere. i was here many times was always drive this way when we had to go to don't hook. i know not. and also of course, when they visited the holy side of language. now do you feel going back along this road? ah, today is a very dark day for me. awfully tough. but it's so day of great significance. now it's very important that we take this route back there today. i over

there other mountains of she likely think when you see those mountains. on august the 15th 2014, when the eighty's was surrounded, most people had already escaped from the mountains. but on august the 3rd, those mountains were still full of you see, seeking refuge ah, the mountains for centuries, a refuge for the eighty's and other religious minorities in the region. but in august 2014, they returned into a fatal trap and circled by ice, malicious and cut off from all supplies. there was no way out for the machine, got it. then they came to shingle and extinguish the flame of the and entire i as ami and jaded me images that went around the

world. 150000, he s e 's caught in the singers mountains behind them, the murderous ins malicious ahead of them. only the vague hope of escaping the tara . ah, they destroyed online. they killed my mother, my sister and my brothers. we've been here for 3 or 4 days now and nothing to eat. we're going to die. i unbearable heat with temperatures reaching 50 degrees celsius. no food, and nothing to drink. oh, we had nothing to eat or drink. our children died of dehydration. we like to leave along the way. countless people lost their lives while fleeing. first children and the elderly. from starvation empty tray,

were all going to die with every minute counting as they fled. families did not even have time to bury their dead. here in the cinder mountains, every rock in stone is a silent witness to the genocide of the eighty's. i the village of my heart. all my heart is between shingle and tell by that i've done that one morning i it's rounded up old women and children caught show and brought to georgetown. i cannot be my id to you event and meanwhile they murdered. i mean,

in the village all along the route, harrowing memories came back to nasha. together with her rustic images. good, god forsaken. see how could it come to these? all you see a houses with no life? where are you will? we are now approaching the city has been jar way. we will see with a nationalist aim of continuing to cultural as possible the indications that we will be turned away. the kurdish murder forces control limited number of areas national as village cultural is located outside the city limits and inside the

territory governed by iraqi forces. national are pleased with the soldiers from both forces to let her through. we wait for a decision from superior officer. sit down. no, i can't sit down far to tell me what we can provide any guarantees there and strongly advise you against driving to cultural if national were to go there alone, the risk for her is lower than if you go together. we've been told by lots of people from the outset that the trip to culture is a bad idea due to the dangers involved. and because we'd be stopped at military

checkpoint, huntington national nervous, she's determined to continue head tourney desperate to return to the place where she endured, set her risk. that could be as much. we have news for you as we can't this way national from her plan. she's permitted to proceed, but at her own rate, if anything happens to her there, we won't be able to help me. so nash le continues her journey. i'm explicitly forbidden from accompanying her as a german citizen, i'm considered a potential kidnapping victim. and as such, an even bigger security risk, nationalist progress is now in the hands of the iraqi forces. her only permitted s course is a local cameraman syndrome. now in ruins, was once the heart of the years edi community. in 2014,

it was over run by i s malicious who made the city a center of it's tara operations, the in late 2016 iraqi troops. this it almost so it took them 9 months of bitter st battle to dislodge from the city and the surrounding area. 2017 so that your heart is driven out of large parts of iraq. defeat appeared imminent for 5 years, retreated only to launch repeated counter offensive using guerrilla tactics. the us led coalition forces. we took one city off to the next, while a growing number of spices were taken prisoner around 30000 were able to go into hiding. where they remained on standby as in singers or all that was left behind was

a sea of rubble and tapering. menache and we are now in the center of shingle. the question actually did it was i is will base 2 years right here. one of the was the headquarters and a bunker on the number and just tell him that they would retreat the cover here. when the american planes attacked the american air raids meant the eye as fighters couldn't venture out onto the street. so they had a system of tunnel spilled here. the video of the main tunnel went from over there to here. it's incredible to see how much digging they did underneath us.

they needed to be able to hide and avoid being hit by the plains. so they built the sophisticated network of underground tunnels, where their fighters could go from a to be creating the issue because this was the 1st of the tunnels. it's 75 meters long meter and across single, there were $120.00 such tunnels. eastern got the do you know how these tunnels with doug with the hands they get it is they will use the slave labor one to done up quote. sure, why i initially, what happened to the people here has nothing to do with religion? it's something not justified in either is or christianity his or you know? yeah. the faith, it's despicable. shut that ah

she what is this here? not sure. this is the minarette of sheen god. it was the oldest landmark of the city and our region. 6 days before we liberated chic gulf, the gum destroyed the minerals while the special hypatia. i can't imagine anything worse than this genocide, but some of our city was destroyed and the people living here kill solely because we get cities and codes just 3 years. previously, this had been a bustling commercial street with stores and st. trade is since i had been reduced

to a ghost town, the majority of its former residence now dead. children more their parents and parents more children. i lost 3 nephews. they were as big as that boy over there. really this is your home here. well yeah. how you doing now? the awful. there's nothing here. i'm as you can see that you know, work no life minutes telecom. what needs to happen for people to have hope for the future? any medical video project. what we want is for this genocide to stop me and for an investigation into what was done to our women and girl over there, you'll find the remains of our dead had been picked up by dogs, whether dead or alive were denied dignity and justice for 3 years now,

the bones of our dead there have been preyed on by stray dogs. and there are still, yes, it is in the clutches of o financial care. it's important to see her people given back their dignity. her home village culture is not far away now. say 3 years old at the time she lived here with her mother, 3 sisters and 3 brothers. they had a simple but care free life. that used to be my school with them every day until i left you know, and now i have to see what's left of it. for the 1st time since being taken captive national returns to culture the place where she was born, a place of happiness that she never wanted to leave the keys to be my parents house

father, i call you when you come back . d in all i have now associates of you these are my cousins. yes. so when i asked to control of coach or national raised the white fact by her have waited. her family has surrendered. but then the jihadists appeared at their door job. it was august the 5th 2014 to my mama body and it was the 1st time i'd seen eyes fighters and culture. i could see them through a crack in the window. dressed in black with long beads,

linen robes and head dress. when i saw the terrorists, i wanted to look away. i was reduced to tear the the i as fighters ordered v d 's and the village to convert to islam or face death. a notion that was unthinkable for nation and her family. the nation has now reached the place where everything was taken from her. her home, her family. on august the 9th 2014 the dds from the neighboring village of hock. him managed to escape that most of possible in culture. the 9 o'clock in the mornings, the commander right when he was

enraged, as he often local in 10 percent, how the residence of him had been able to escape over. indeed, had we been involved our men ground to just one line and then took the way up to the school the guy that was their headquarters back then guide on the innovation were rounded up at the school for most of the local years. this would be the final chapter in a live. the it was here in the 1280

families, the separated by men. the men will put down here and ask women in the next story, the nation. i remember hearing the men being beaten, then she had gone home. my mother stood right here. the v is where us women lie, not me. i. 6 now and here i remember is gone everywhere. they told us not to move the we didn't know they were in the process of murdering young men. the city

took away their phones and jewelry and their money. and then they took them outside and killed them about a kilometer away from the school. did you hear it again? yes. there was suddenly a gust of wind and dust and we started to shake hands. then that's when we heard the plains about and for a moment we thought we'd been saved. suddenly a boy came over and we asked him why he was crying. he was about to reply. when an i, if i said, we'll kill you, if you say, just one single word. what had he with the boy had witnessed the mass execution. he was crying, why?

they wanted to silence him. because he was the only witness national refuses to be silenced. she wants the world to know about the fate of her fellow nation. i came here as a victim, but to part as a fighter, binge, i am strong as a stronger than i am back in since i wait with you as a soldier, to welcome nation back from her village. after 10 few hours, we finally get the cool telephone call. jonathan. ashleigh just calls from coach. oh say she's on her way back. so i'm now heading out there. i mean all good, national made it back. okay. 45 minutes

later national arrived at the checkpoint, back from her journey into the past. now she faces a new mission. really i can't give up. i know our men in culture were murdered, cordially. but i don't know where there remains whatever it takes to find out whose body say and where they are buried. you can't just let it be with me. at the end of the attorney back edge notion, i received news that soldiers had made a gruesome discovery outside sinner. we go look at it now.

an eerily quiet place with little sign. it was the science of war crimes done. this mass grave contains around 450 cities, brutally murdered by i s o, and they remain still here which explains the lack of action. we don't know who's buried here either minutes ago in there. yes. me. i think the remains of my parents are somewhat in or around culture, photos of the men, at least the remains of my mother, a probably in solar, had

a lot of the oh, the in the mortal remains of thousands of years these buried and make shift mass graves by them murderous me. there are going to get it everywhere here after killing the cities. i as just covered them with the they lined the men up over there yesterday. shucks women and children too. and then they were executed. one group off to the next

to get taken and murdered to the following. with no respect for their dignity, i want to know where i can find my parents remains. i can feel that they are close by that way. exactly how much of a buttons on mine and mine a question that does not just hold nash le. almost every year's eating from shingle lost family members in the genocide national wants to fight for the living. and for the dead, i want the world to know what happened here. so that nobody

can claim they run the win. must have as long as one girl, one woman, one father, one son, will not read. what goes out by the me. our journey ends with national as wish to visit the shelf for dean temple, a sacred place for years, ease her faith is something that never left her neither during captivity nor afterwards. awe.

busy busy today was very dark day, but it's also a day of significance. one that we will look back on for a long time to come. i pray for all his cds, who is still in captivity. is jeremiah the nation ma, to leave iraq reborn, a woman with a mission. ah ah, she's now

a fighter. determined to raise her voice financially . the nightmare is all to present, but she refuses to be destroyed by it. and that gives her strength. she's now a political activist voice for the victims who can no longer speak as seen here at a conference hosted by the german government. and mine is not muscle. my name is mitchell motto, and from iraq. it's all true. what i was fortunate and came to germany with the contingent of you cds and got him being a prisoner, if it was the worst thing i ever experienced in my whole life. you know how much my, that all i want is for all women to be freed from kept to the same with that you miss that in the end of the united

nations in new york to national i reminded the global community of the faith suffered by women in ins, captivity for once a farmer's daughter. she's now a fighter for freedom, appealing to the un to finally excavate the mass graves found today. passionate i had that when i did as to my code to as you know, i was in culture for years after the math test, read it the photos of our did with the only thing i recognized how school there was not a single trace of my family members, then the, i don't even know with ever my hands on one to be had and, ah, in march 2019, the un responded to national as p,

requesting international experts to start excavating the mass. grace in iraq. excuse me. step towards the victims one day being identified and being granted a dignified last resting place. i use nash. lemme who is stronger than the men who abuse to fight continues for all the women still held by the terrorists and for the perpetrators of this genocide. to be brought to justice, the news,

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