The story of a Yazidi girl who survived
This is about Ikhlas Khadr: they killed my father and my two brothers in front of me and did not allow me to embrace their bodies.
A young Yazidi woman, Ikhlas Khadr, lives on the outskirts of the German city of Stuttgart, where she came in 2015 through humanitarian organizations to rehabilitate Yazidi survivors who escaped captivity and slavery "by ISIS. Ikhlas and hundreds of Yazidis who fled the tel Kasab area South of the Shangal mountains fell into the hands of ISIL.on August 3, 2014, like most Yazidis, the Ikhlas family tried to escape from the terrorists to mount Shangal / Sinjar, to the springs where there were thousands of Yazidi families who had fled before them, but the Ikhlas family was unlucky and they fell into the hands of ISIL and became their slaves."
Members of the terrorist group ISIL forced us to convert to Islam, and those who refused to accept another religion were immediately killed.
Ihlas Khadr recalls: "They killed my father and my two brothers in front of my eyes, and they didn't allow me to even hug or approach their bodies, hence the real tragedy in front of us began to develop. Violence and ill-treatment of us was the main business of the terrorists, with particular cruelty they tortured us and denied us food and drink for long periods of time. We were sold as an ordinary commodity, a thing on the market.
In addition to the rapes, I was severely beaten, leaving me sitting in blood. I tried to escape several times, and the last time I managed it. Me and a few other girls, we ran to the mountain where my brother and some Yazidi fighters were waiting for us, it was a new moment of birth for me."
Ihlas arrived at the Essien camp, where the rest of her family lived. Despite her doomed freedom, her psychological state deteriorated. Then, she was able to go to Germany, as part of a rehabilitation program for Yazidi survivors adopted by the German government, where Ikhlas received psychological help, after which, she began to think about building a new life as an attempt to overcome those terrible memories.
Yazidi survivor Ikhlas Khadr concluded her story: "Every step I took, I was supported by my brother and my mother. After two years of waiting, my brother's wife and children were released from the control of the terrorists. But unfortunately, my brother died of a heart attack. It was a big shock for all of us and the sadness came back again, my brother was like a father, but unfortunately it happened. I am still studying, my mother and I live on the outskirts of Stuttgart, and my dream is to become a lawyer in the future to protect people of my religion."
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The story of a Yazidi girl who survived
This is about Ikhlas Khadr: they killed my father and my two brothers in front of me and did not allow me to embrace their bodies.
A young Yazidi woman, Ikhlas Khadr, lives on the outskirts of the German city of Stuttgart, where she came in 2015 through humanitarian organizations to rehabilitate Yazidi survivors who escaped captivity and slavery "by ISIS. Ikhlas and hundreds of Yazidis who fled the tel Kasab area South of the Shangal mountains fell into the hands of ISIL.on August 3, 2014, like most Yazidis, the Ikhlas family tried to escape from the terrorists to mount Shangal / Sinjar, to the springs where there were thousands of Yazidi families who had fled before them, but the Ikhlas family was unlucky and they fell into the hands of ISIL and became their slaves."
Members of the terrorist group ISIL forced us to convert to Islam, and those who refused to accept another religion were immediately killed.
Ihlas Khadr recalls: "They killed my father and my two brothers in front of my eyes, and they didn't allow me to even hug or approach their bodies, hence the real tragedy in front of us began to develop. Violence and ill-treatment of us was the main business of the terrorists, with particular cruelty they tortured us and denied us food and drink for long periods of time. We were sold as an ordinary commodity, a thing on the market.
In addition to the rapes, I was severely beaten, leaving me sitting in blood. I tried to escape several times, and the last time I managed it. Me and a few other girls, we ran to the mountain where my brother and some Yazidi fighters were waiting for us, it was a new moment of birth for me."
Ihlas arrived at the Essien camp, where the rest of her family lived. Despite her doomed freedom, her psychological state deteriorated. Then, she was able to go to Germany, as part of a rehabilitation program for Yazidi survivors adopted by the German government, where Ikhlas received psychological help, after which, she began to think about building a new life as an attempt to overcome those terrible memories.
Yazidi survivor Ikhlas Khadr concluded her story: "Every step I took, I was supported by my brother and my mother. After two years of waiting, my brother's wife and children were released from the control of the terrorists. But unfortunately, my brother died of a heart attack. It was a big shock for all of us and the sadness came back again, my brother was like a father, but unfortunately it happened. I am still studying, my mother and I live on the outskirts of Stuttgart, and my dream is to become a lawyer in the future to protect people of my religion."
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