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ah oh, more than 60 years, over 200000 people belonging to the cd, religious minority have been living in refugee camps in northern iraq and surrounding territories. they fled their homeland in 2014, to avoid the murderous headphones of the self styled islamic state since the expulsion of ideas from areas they occupied in iraq, some 80 mass grades have been found here, containing the most remains of 12000 people the in

me, oh i'm strong, stronger than is national emma, who lived through the hell on earth. that was the i s regime after being a slave for almost 2 years. she was finally freed alongside of the as the, the survivors in april 2015. to me. i have no children of my own, but it breaks my heart. it's as if they were my own. but as i mentioned soon as among the women who survived at home, she merged more dead than alive with her jewels smashed, and her so crushed the oh, she now lives in germany, but will never be able to forget the deal she went through. i got kickball,

i was still a virgin locker dash when i asked arrived, i was rate and forced to marry john didn't and daughter, oh that's good. tied me up and covered my mouth. i've been getting while they abused me. i had no live nation. i wanted to go back to her homeland, to the place where her family was met, it was she was raped and enslaved national. there's not one to forget so that the world does not forget what happened back then. i have to go back despite the fear i can stop thinking about that day when the i is 5 . is the village august. the 15th 2014. i keep on seeing it. they took us all into the school to kill

me. this is a journey back into a post that never leaves her a journey to learn. that was one her home i was born in hanover, 2 years the, the parents and would be accompanying national on her journey. my parents immigrated to germany several decades ago. we as it is her faith persecution, ever since we exist, that you learn early on where you stand. the 2 of us flew together to iraq from berlin, a trip to the land of our ancestors alone that we had lost the this is the 3rd time i've been back to me since i invaded our village.

this is my cousin, mommy. and she spent the last 3 years and i kept too busy and was liberated just 15 days ago in the we'd be landing in the area straddling the borders between iraq, syria, and turkey. the original homeland of the cds from abuse then to cardia camp. in the kurdish region of north, in iraq's our route would also take us past mosul, the former stronghold of cardia is the reception camp in the middle of the country side. make sure the tense and building so close to 13000 survivors of genocide. almost all of those. yes. cds who were liberated from i came here. i hello, you. fine. right after entering the camp,

national needs her cousin, safe. martin? negative. don't cry. meeting that joe. i don't be sad. it's okay. and was the last time you saw him 3 years ago? the after we were captured by? yes, we will imprison together antenna fan for 4 weeks. i was good enough, but after that i didn't see him again. this way. oh, nation i still haunted by images of the war. the memories of august 2014, when i as truths around the syndrome region destroying everything in their path.

in the summer of 2014, the g hard is to seize slaves of territory in iraq and syria. among the cities conquered by the heavily armed forces with sin jar the center of s e d life in iraq. hello. in the eyes of the devil worshippers, who together with christian into those and muslim a post date, deserve to die after occupying all public buildings. did you how to set up a regime of terror hunting down disease and conducting the 1st mass executions in the syndrome region? the yes, the, the heartland is abducted 7000 women and children and floated 5000 men and older boys. me

nationally. i was able to escape in humane treatment at the hands of bell. yes. she would shortly be meeting her cousin, la mia, who been freed from captivity just a few days earlier. the 2 women spent years and i as captivity where they were humiliated, whipped and repeatedly rate the national and low mia to women who survived the horrors of bias and whose ordeals, with sadly could be for the 7000 capture, yazzy, the women and girls. 6 nasha had given up hope of ever seeing her cousin again being a captive avaya. she says men dying a new death every day where death was a kind of salvation. nami was just

a child when she was captured by the jihadists. she gave birth twice and breast fed . both baby's baby thought it by men who rate her and murdered her family. you've been free again for how long about 2 weeks since you were with us for 3 years. in myrtle? yes. in muscle. how did you escape? to be honest, it still seems like a miracle. i can't even remember myself how exactly we managed to free ourselves. we hid in tunnels under the ground. we were lying on munition. to prove that they sell, you know. but i have to give birth to 2 children for them to children. yes. for they know,

i left them there. everyone in the camp is a victim. their body survived, but they saw a traumatized as seen. their families murdered their homes destroyed, and their homeland taken away from them. now mia was 12 when she was abducted and raped. she says the photos of herself taken just days before her enslavement on the next photo. she's wearing a headscarf and is 6 months pregnant. nami survived by obeying orders and bearing her, kept his children. the dea won't be miss you children very much. but i had no choice that i asked children, they've killed my parents and my brothers and sisters. it was impossible to take

the children with me. i couldn't imagine taking them back to my community, otherwise i just had to go to some far away place with them on my i had unless that's all that's life. like for you know, what are you going to do with it? if i could, i would free all the girls from the hands of i yes, that's my biggest wish i would do it personally. but unfortunately i can't i live through at all. and so ritual with my, oh no, you know what the skills going through and how hard it is for them know me, is no 15 and determined to fight for her future and for her right to a life of her national science, a number of women in the camp who like her, had been slaves of the jihadists, survivors and witnesses to a 21st century genocide. me

this, i was in prison together with these 2 girls in the family. for 3 months then they towards the part the atlantic state enslaved over 5000 p s e d. women and girls like law mia ivana had 3 years of her life. taken away from her ivana was 80 years old when she was abducted. she was passed from one i asked her to the next, each time groomed and primed for subsequent sale. her last to mentor was a us citizen. 11, what a choice you like to mind you will think it was in order to sell me. ah, this is how often we use old 5 times with the till. and how did

you escape? was in the last year i was with an american man. eventually a wealthy man bought me off him and rescued me. how did the american treaty, who was extremely cruel, he owned me and another. you see the woman the me was easy. these people now just never did anything to anybody. as long as there's no justice. how should i put it?

only when there is justice for our religious community will our lives be worth living again and be enjoyable. it was the next day as a nerve wracking one for national. she will try to go back to her village. culture is days drive away and as close to sin john or shingle as we are calling formerly occupied by the militias. the region is now gradually being liberated. nation says she owes this trip to herself and her parents. it's the anniversary of the massacre against the eighty's. for now, however, culture is in the restricted military area. on is u. s. e d and the soldier in the kurdish defense forces. ana and nash, s brother, met with stationed at the same location. armor fell in the fight against

h 30 years old. the soldiers know that we are taking a risk. our route 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 was always drive this way when we had to go to don't hook. ah. and also of course, when they visited the holy side of learning, how do you feel going back along this road? ah. 6 today is a very dark day. awfully tough. but it's been so day of great significance. now it's very important that we take this route back there today.

ah. over there other mountains, have she likely think when you see those mountains? rosie on august the 15th 2014. when the eighty's was surrounded, most people had already escaped from the mountains. but in august to serve those mountains was still full of you see seeking refuge, and that is, ah misinger mountains. for centuries, a refuge for the eighty's and other religious minorities in the region. but in august 2014, they would turn into a fatal trap, encircled by ice 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 eye as jaded mm. images that went around the world. 150000 cds caught in the singers mountains behind them, the murderous, malicious, ahead of them. only the vague hope of escaping the para. ah, if destroy down lives, 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 had to leave them along the way. countless people lost their lives well fleeing 1st children and

the elderly. from starvation m p address we're 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 the village of my heart. all my heart is between shingle and tell the i've done that one morning, i just rounded up all the women and children caught show and brought to see

jeanette and i cannot be my id to you with ed and meanwhile they murdered down in the village. all along the route, harrowing memories came back to nash together with her roofing images. good god forsaken. see how could it come to this? all you see a house is 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. indications that we will be turned away. the kurdish murder forces control limited number of areas.

nation 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 coach ho 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 took to

culture as a bad idea due to the dangers involved and because we'd be stopped at military checkpoints, the i don't think the district national is nervous. she's determined to continue her journey. desperate to return to the place where she endured such horrific abuse. 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 unexpectedly forbidden from accompanying her as a german citizen, i'm considered a potential kidnapping victim. and such an even bigger security with national progress is now in the hands of the iraqi forces. her only permitted escort 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 asked militia, who made the city a center of it's tara operations. the in late 2016 iraqi troops descended on myrtle. it took them 9 months of bitter st battle to dislodge from the city and the surrounding area. 2017. so the jihadists, driven out of large parts of iraq, defeat, 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 menache and we are now in the center of shingle to question that fashion. i yes, we'll base 2 years right here. one of them was the headquarters and the bunker. remember to tell him that you are just that they would retreat recover 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. the video, 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're fighters could go from a to be freely at the issue because this was the 1st of the tunnels. it's 75 made as long, big meter and across single. there were 120 on the do you know how these tunnels with doug with the hands of the yes it is. they will use the slave labor one to done a short want actually what happened to the people here has nothing to do with religion. it's something not justified in either islam or christianity. he's or you know? yes, the faith is despicable me

. ah, here be what is this here? not sure. this is the minarets of sheen god. it was the oldest landmark of the city and our region. and out of 6 days before we liberated the gum, destroy the mineral was fish or a hospital. i can't imagine anything worse than this genocide, but some of our city was destroyed. and the people living here killer only because we get cities and codes just 3 years previously, this has been a buffering commercial street with stores and st. traders. singers had been reduced

to a ghost town. the majority of its former residence now dead. children more their parents and parents small their children. my last 3 nephew, they were as big as that boy over there. really, this is your home. what are they? how you doing now? awful. there's nothing here. i'm, as you can see that you know, work, you know, life. let us talk what needs to happen, people to have. hopefully i'm going to get something ready. video 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 got over there. you'll find the remains of our dead, which have been picked that by dog, 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 can. it's important to see her people given back their dignity. her home village culture is not far away now. so if he 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 every day until i left. 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 all i have now, especially the season my cousins she says yes. so when i asked to control of cultural national, raised a white fact by her, hey, and waited. family has surrendered. but then the jihadists appeared at their door job. it was august, the 5th 2014 to my mama body. 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 and 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, we as it is in the village to convert to islam or face death, a notion that was unthinkable for national and her family naturally 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 hockey, managed to escape. that wasn't possible in the 9 o'clock in the morning. the commander arrived

when he was enraged, as he, after local and to present how the residence of him had been able to escape wounded had we been involved with the men ground just one line and then took it away. i stopped at the school. that was their headquarters back then guide on the generations were rounded up at the school for most of the local u. s. e t z. this would be the final chapter in a live. the it was here in the 1280

families to separated by men. the men will put down here and ask women in the next story of the nation. i remember hearing the men being beaten, then she had gone back home. my mother stood right here. the is whereas women lie, not me, i. and here i remember come every, when they told us not to move the, we didn't know they were in the process of murdering young men. the think took away their phones,

jewelry and then money. and then they took them outside and killed them about a kilometer away from the school. did you hear the gun? 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 over the data 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

was it? and they wanted to silence him. because he was the only witness refuses to be silent. she wants the world to know about the fate of her fellow nation. i came here as a victim, but to parts. as a fighter, binge back, i am strong, stronger than i am. back in since i wait with you as a soldier, to welcome nation us back from her village. after 10, few hours we find they get the call and they've got a lot of other support financial just called 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. a can't give up. i know our men in culture were murdered, cordially. but i don't know where there remains to whatever it takes to find out whose body say and where they are buried. can't just let it be with me. at the end of attorney bacteria village notion, i received news that soldiers had made a gruesome discovery outside sinner. we can look at it now

an eerily quiet place with little sign. it was the site of war crimes. this mass great contains around 450 cities, brutally murdered by i s o. and they remain because, you know, they're still here which explains the lack of action. we don't know who is buried here either i'm going to go in there. yes. me quotes or the i think the remains of my parents are somewhat in or around culture. all those of the men, at least the remains of my mother, a probably in solar, on the had

a lot of the oh, in the mortal remains of thousands of years he's buried and make shift mass graves by them is ah, there are going to get it everywhere here, after killing the cities, i as just cover them with the they lined the men up over there yesterday and shucks women and children to solve it. and then they were executed. one group off to the next push to get 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 are close by where they are. i've done this the last but where exactly a month. i find it on mine and mine a question that does not just tone nash le almost every years 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 a win. but how does that look? was as long as one girl, one woman, one father, one son, a captive last night and you will not read it. what goes out by the me journey ends with national as wish to visit the shirt for being temple a sacred place for years. ease her faith is something that never left her neither during captivity, nor afterwards. ah,

i today was a 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 it either by 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 my non muscle. my name is national motto, and from iraq, it's all true. like i was fortunate and came to germany with a contingent of cds. i've gotten bitten, being a prisoner of i. s was the worst thing i ever experienced in my whole life. new mobile much my that all i want is for all women to be freed from kept to the same with that, that, ah,

and the united nations in new york to nationally reminded the global community of the fate suffered by women in ice. captivity was 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. hash had that when i did as to my cordial, as you know, i was in 4 years after the math test. we did the photos of our did with the only thing i recognized at high school. there was not a single trace of my family member. i don't even know with ever 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 grounded, a dignified, last resting place. ah ah, national who is stronger than the men who abuse to her 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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