the soldiers know that we are taking a risk. our rate is a perilous one, that you hardest may no longer have a strong presence here, but individually. they're still working everywhere. i was here many times would always drive this way when we had to go to toe hook. i. and also of course, when they visited the holy side of lavish, how do you feel going back along this road? ah, today is a very dark day for me. awfully tough. but it's been so a day of great significance. now it's very important that we take this route back there today. ah. over there other mountains of shingle.

you think when you see those mountains now? on august the 15th 2014, when the eighty's was surrounded, most people had already escaped from the mountains. but in august, those mountains were still full, as you see, seeking refuge ah messenger mountains. for centuries, a refuge for the cds and other religious minorities in the region. but in august 2014, they returned into a fatal trap and circled by iron militias and cut off from all supplies. there was no way out for the machine. they came to shingle and extinguish the flame of the as an entire army and jaded me. images that

went around the world, $150000.00 p. s e 's court in the singers mountains. behind them, the murderous, malicious, ahead of them only the vague hope of escaping the terror. i 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. i was going to die in. 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 had to leave along the way. countless people lost, well fleeing. first children and the elderly from starvation, empty hydration. 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 as a silent witness to the genocide of the 80s. i owe a village of my heart. all my heart is between shingle and tell the i've done that one morning. i just rounded up old women and children caught sho get neat and brought up and i didn't go not be my id that you have it. and meanwhile they murdered. i'm in

the village all along the route, harrowing memories came back to nash. together with her rustic images. there was a godforsaken, c t. how could it come to this? all you see a houses with no life? where are you will? we are now approaching the city has been the way we will see with a nationalist aim of continuing to cultural as possible. the indications that we will be turned away. the kurdish parish mega for says 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 cocoa. if national were to go there alone, the risk for her is lower than if you go together. we've been told by loss of people from the outset that the trip to culture as a bad idea due to the dangers involved and because we stopped at military

checkpoints the same time the district national is nervous. she is determined to continue her journey desperate to return to the place where she endured 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, national progress is now in the hands of the iraqi forces. her only permitted s course is a local cameraman. ginger, now in ruins, was once the heart of the year's edi community. in 2014,

it was over run by i s malicious who made the city essential. it's tara operations . the in late 2016 iraqi troops descent on most so it took them 9 months of bitter st. battle to dislodge us from the city and the surrounding area. 2017, so that your heart is driven out of large parts of iraq defeats appeared imminent for its fighters 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 sin jar, all that was left behind was

a sea of rubble and tapering. we're not sure we are now in the center of shingle. those 2 question actually is will base 2 years right here. one of them was the headquarters and the bunker. and remember to tell him that they would retreat for cover here. when the american planes attacked the american air raids meant the fighters couldn't venture out onto the street. so they had a system of tunnels built here. he's 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 this sophisticated network of underground tunnels, where they are fighters could go from a to be freely at the issue because this was the 1st of the tunnels. it's 75 meters long, big me. and across single. there were $120.00 such tunnels. eastern got the might be the do you know how these tunnels would dug in with the hands they get it is they will use the slave labor one done. i'm sure why i'm actually sure. what happened to the people here has nothing to do with religion . it's something not justified in either is or christianity he is or you know? yes, the faith is despicable ever said. let me

hear what is this here? not us. and this is the minarets of sheen god. it was the oldest landmark of the city and our region, 6 days before we liberated the scum, destroyed the minerals while he was. yeah, i can't imagine anything worse than this genocide, but some of our city was destroyed and the people living here killed only because we get cities and codes just 3 years previously, this has been a bustling commercial street with stores and st. traders. singers had been reduced

to a ghost town. the majority of its former residence now dead. children move their parents and parents small their children. i last 3 nephew. they were as big as that boy over there. we did it, is this your home is how you doing now? awful. there's nothing here. i'm as you can see that you know work. no life medicine. what needs to happen for people to have hope for the future? i'm going to get something really bidding this project. what we want is for this genocide to stop me and for an investigation into what we've done to our women and girl over there, you'll find the remains of our dead have been picked up by dogs that govern 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 i s o for national care. it's important to see her people given back their dignity. her home village culture is not far away now. 30 years old at the time, she lived here with her mother, 3 sisters and 3 brothers. they had a simple but carefree life. that used to be my school every day until i left. and now i have to see what's left of it. so the 1st time since being taken captive national returns to culture the place where she was born, the place of happiness that she never wanted to leave these keys to be my parents house. father,

i call you when you come back all i have now, especially in my cousins this is just when i asked to control of coach or national, raised the white flag by her, hey, and places her family has surrendered. but then the hardest appeared at their door job was it was august, the 5th 2014 to my mom about him getting me. it was the 1st time i'd seen ice fighters in 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, cds in the village to convert to islam or face death. a notion that was unthinkable for national and her family national have now reached the place where everything was taken from her. her home, her family service. on august the 9th 2014 the dds from the neighboring village of hearts, and managed to escape most of possible in culture the 9 o'clock in the morning. the commander arrived

when he was enraged, as he asked our local and 10 percent how the residence of him had been able to escape. oh indeed it had we been involved our men ground to just one line and then took us away to the school. my dad died. that was their headquarters back then guide on the boat interactions were rounded up at the school for most of the local years. this would be the final chapter in the it was

here in the 1280 families to separated by men. the men will put down here and women in the next story, the nation. i remember hearing the men being beaten, then she had gone back home. my mother stood right here. the whereas women had to lie. now i and here i remember, gone everywhere. they told us not to move the we didn't know they were in the process of murdering young men. the city

they took away their phones and jewelry and then money. and then they took them outside and killed them about a kilometer away from the school. did you hear the guns? yes. there was suddenly a gust of wind and dust and we started to shake. then that's when we heard the plains above. and for a moment we thought we'd been saved. suddenly a boy came up with a n t s. 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 was, the boy had witnessed a mass execution. he was crying. why was it?

and they wanted to silence him because he was the only witness nationally refuses to be silenced. she wants the world to know about the fate of her fellow nation. i came here as a victim to parts. as a fighter, binge back, i am strong, stronger than i am. back in since i wait with your vd soldier to welcome nation us back from her village. after 10, few hours we find they get the cool. not a lot of us put off and i just called from coach. oh that they she's on her way back. so i'm now heading out there. i mean all good national. i made it back. ok.

45 minutes later national arrived at the checkpoint, back from her journey into the past. now she faces a new mission. i can't give up and i know our men in culture were murdered about that. but i don't know where they remain on my whatever it takes to find out whose bodies they are and where they are buried. can't just let it be with me. at the end of the attorney, bacteria village nation. i received news that the soldiers had made a gruesome discovery outside cinder. we go look at it now.

an eerily quiet place with little sign it was the sites of war crimes done. this mass grave contains around 450 as it is brutally murdered by all and they remain testing of this still here is much which explains the lack of action. we don't know who is buried here either. i'm going to go in there. yes. me. course i think the remains of my parents are somewhat in or around coach. oh, well those of the men, at least the remains of my mother, a probably in solar,

on the had a lot of the oh me the mortal remains of thousands of years ease buried and make shift mass graves by them murderous me. their bones get it everywhere here after killing the yes it is. i just covered them with the they lined the men up over there. yes, cities shall box women and children 2 and then they were executed. one

group off to the next been 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 close by the door, but where exactly? amanda, find the best news on mine and mine a question that does not just told nash le, almost every years eating from shingle, lost family members in the genocide, national ones to fight for the living. and for the dead. i want the world to know what happened here so that nobody

can claim they were unaware. how does look as long as one girl? one woman, one father, one son i kept okay last night and you will not read what goes out by the me journey ends with national as wish to visit the sheriff for dean tempo, a sacred place for years. her faith is something that never left her neither during captivity nor off to its ah.

busy busy i 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 filling captivity. is eva j my the nation ma to leave iraq reborn, a woman with a mission. ah ah, she's now

a fighter. determined to raise her voice financial . 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 a scene here at a conference hosted by the german government. and mine is not muscle. my name is mitchell motto, and from iraq rhetoric. it's all true. like i was fortunate and came to germany with the contingent of you cds. i'm getting a gun and being a prisoner of i s was the worst thing i ever experienced in my whole life knew, eat much. all i want is for all women to be freed from kept to the same with that that and at the

united nations in new york to nash, i reminded the global community of the fate suffered by women in ins, captivity for just once a farmer's daughter. she's now a fighter for freedom, appealing to the un to finally excavate the mass graves found today i had got when i did as to my quote to, as you know, i was in your office 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. i don't even know what they were my and so i was one to be had and, ah, in march 2019. the un responded to national as p requesting international experts

to start excavating the mass graves in iraq. the step towards the victims one day being identified and being granted a dignified last resting place. ah ah, the national mater is stronger than the men who are abused 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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