Taken to a slave market in Mosul, she was traded between different Isis fighters and repeatedly raped. After a year she was moved to the Syrian city of Raqqa where she was married off to her third captor, a 24-year-old Palestinian from Gaza who she says also belonged to Hamas. “He told me that I had to sleep with him,” she said in an interview with Kurdish TV channel Rudaw. “On the third day, he went to a pharmacy and bought a drug that numbs part of the body. He gave me the drug and I cried.” The following year she gave birth to a boy, then some time later a daughter. In late 2018 her captor was killed in fighting for the Islamic State, which was driven out of its last stronghold by Kurdish forces backed by a US-led coalition. Seydou was transferred to Al-Hawl, a grim camp for Isis wives in the desert of northeast Syria where as many as 100 Yazidi women still remain.
@HebrideanHecate Oh, the good guys
@sullybiker Absolutely, superb characters, aren't they. Where were/are the marches for these women.
@HebrideanHecate I had to read 'slave market' twice. There is an economic system around selling people there. In 2024.
@HebrideanHecate Rather embarrassingly they have put these cultures on a pedestal.
@sullybiker Yep, they are drastically stupid.
@sullybiker While the usual rabble scream and yell about a slavery that is now gone, but refuse to address the one happening right now.