armor fell in the fight against s 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 toe hook. and also of course, when they visited the holy side of launch. now do you feel going back along this road? ah, today it's 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, if you 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 in august to say those mountains were still full of you see, seeking refuge ah, singed 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, malicious and cut off from all supplies. there was no way out for the. the machines

. they came to shingle and extinguish the flame of the as an entire army invaded images that went around the world. 150000 p. 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! destroyed our 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 in awe 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 the children and the elderly from starvation, empty hydration. were all going to die with every minute counting as they fled, families did not even hurt helen to bury their dead. here in the cinder mountains, every rock and stone is a silent witness to the genocide of the 80s. i am the village of my heart. all my heart is between shingle and tell us that one morning, i just rounded up all the whim and children who need and brought

out. i cannot be my view of 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 godforsaken, see. c 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. nationalists, 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. thought you 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 took to culture as a bad idea due to the dangers involved and because we'd be stopped at military checkpoints. i don't seem to lead a national 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 hurt any. i'm explicitly forbidden from accompanying her. as a german citizen, i'm considered a potential kidnapping victim. and as such, an even biggest security risk, 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 house of the 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 it from the city and the surrounding area. 2017. so the jihad 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 day bree manada. we are now in the center of shingle. the question that i is will base 2 years right here. one of them was the headquarters and the bunker on the number to tell him that you just that they would retreat the cover here. when the american planes attacked the buck with the american air raids meant the eye as fighters couldn't venture out onto the street. so they had a system of tunnels built here. we are inside 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 their fist a gated network of underground tunnels where their fighters could go from a to be freely. sure. this was the 1st of the tunnels. it's 75 meters long, big meter and across single. there were a $120.00 such tunnels. this is some got the how do you know how these tunnels with doug with the hands of the video, they will use the slave labor? one done up call. surely want national leadership. what happened to the people here has nothing to do with religion. it's something

not justified in either is or christianity. he's or you know, yes, the faith is despicable. shut me here. what is this here? not sure. this is the minarets of sion god. it was the oldest landmark of the city and the region. 6 days before we liberated chic gulf, the gum destroyed the minerals while the official hospital jer. 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 had been a pastor and commercial street with stores and st. trade is, singers had been reduced to a ghost town. the majority of its former residence now dead. children more their parents and parents more their children. i last 3 nephew. they were as big as that boy over there. really, this is your home. yeah. how you doing now? awful. there's nothing here. i'm as you can see that you know work. he didn't know life talk. what needs to happen for people to have hope for the future. i'm going to get something with the project. what we want is for this genocide to stop me and for an investigation into what was done to our women and girls got over

there. you'll find the remains of our dead have been picked up by dog. whether dead or alive were denied dignity and justice for 3 years now, the bones of our dead there have been braid on by stray dogs and there are still yes, it is in the clutches of i s o financially to it's important to see her people given back their dignity, her home village culture is not far away now. 50 years old at the time she lived here with her mother, 3 sisters and 3 brothers. they had a simple but care free life. 6 that used to be my school, it was every day until at the 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, the place of happiness that she never wanted to leave the keys to be my parents house. father, i call you when you come back, i was in all i have now, assertions of you these are my cousins just so when i asked to control of coach or national, raised the white fact by her have and waited. her family has surrendered. but then that the hardest appeared at their door job. it was august the 5th 2014. and it was the 1st time i've 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 b. i. s 5 is ordered o v d 's 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 hart managed to escape. that wasn't

possible in cato, 9 o'clock in the morning, the commander arrived when he was enraged, as he asked local and 10 percent how the residence of him had been able to escape over in the ditch. had we been involved? our men grounded us up one line and then took it away. i stopped at the school, wouldn't go. that was their headquarters back then. the guy on the innovations were rounded up at the school. so most of the

local years, this would be the final chapter in their lives. the it was here in the schools, 1280 families, the separated by men. the men will put down here and us women in the next story out. the nation, i remember hearing the men being beaten, then she had gone home. my mother stood right here. the women lie, not me. i hear i remember the gun everywhere. they told us not to move the we didn't know they were in the process of murdering young men.

the long thing 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 guns? yes. there was suddenly a duct of wind and dust and we started to shake and then that's when we heard the plains about. and for a moment we thought we'd been saved. suddenly a boy came over to the young and we asked him why he was crying. he was about to reply. when 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 could, he was crying. why? and 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. yes. e d national i came here as a victim, but to pounce 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 cool lunch off and i 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. we 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 they are and where they are buried. you can't just let it be with me.

at the end of 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 sights of war crimes. forget but done. this mass grave contains around 450. it is brutally murdered by i s o m. they remain because you know, they're still here which explains the lack of action. we don't know who's buried here either. minutely, go in there. yes. me baby coach or the 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 probably in solar, on the other. oh, the immortal remains of thousands of years. it is buried and make shift mass graves by them, or is the village and they are going to get it everywhere after killing the cities. i just covered them with sandra for the they lined the men up over there yesterday. shucks

women and children to solve it. and then they were executed, one group after 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 are close by where they are. i've done this last that way. exactly how the month i find the buttons on mine and mine a question that does not just told 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. was that nobody can claim they were unaware. how does that look? as long as one girl, one woman, one father, one son 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 afterwards. ah.

busy busy 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 still in captivity. is even german government in whatever the nation mer to leave iraq reborn, a woman with

a mission. ah ah, she's now a fighter. determined to raise her voice financially the nightmare. so 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. i was fortunate and came to germany with the contingent of 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 my that all i want for all women to be freed from kept to the same with

that. you know that in the, under the united nations in new york to national reminded the global community of the faith suffered by women in captivity for once a farmer's daughter. she's now a fighter for freedom, appealing to the un to finally excavate the mass grave found today i had when i did as to my quote to as you know, i was in culture for years after the math test read it. the social is of our did with the only thing i recognize just how school there was not a single trace of my family member then or the i don't even know with ever my and so one to be had and, ah,

in march 2019. the un responded to national as t requesting international experts to start excavating the mass graves in iraq. the 1st step towards the victims one day being identified and being granted a dignified last resting place. ah, ah, my name is lamar who is stronger than the men who abused her. her fight continues for all the women still held by the terrorists and for the perpetrators of this genocide,

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