Over 350 Kurdish Yazidi women freed from Islamic State in Iraq’s Fallujah

by **Rocky** Mon 20 Jun 2016, 6:48 am

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Over 350 Kurdish Yazidi women freed from Islamic State in Iraq’s Fallujah

by Rocky Mon 20 Jun 2016, 6:48 am

Over 350 Kurdish Yazidi women freed from Islamic State in Iraq’s Fallujah
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Kurdish Yazidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan (Photo). Captured Kurdish Yazidi women are used as sex slaves. Photo credit: Scanpix
FALLUJAH— A Kurdish Yazidi official in Dohuk province in Iraq’s Kurdistan region revealed that over 350 Yazidi abductees have been freed from the Islamic State (IS) by the Iraqi forces in Fallujah.
Hadi Dubani, the director of Yazidi Affairs in Dohuk province, told media that they were informed on Sunday by the Iraqi forces that 354 Yazidi women and girls, previously abducted by the IS militants in Sinjar, have been freed in Fallujah by the Iraqi forces, Basnews reported.
Dubani said “The freed Yazidi women are now in Amirya area in Fallujah under the protection of the Iraqi forces. they are expected to arrive in Kurdistan Region in the near future.”

Dubani told NRT, “We are investigating whether those women rescued by Hashid al-Shaabi are those ISIS-kidnapped Yazidi women.”
Earlier this month, 4 Yazidi girls were [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] by the Iraqi forces soon after the Fallujah offensive was launched; they were later reunited with their families in Erbil.
The Directorate of Yazidi Abductees Affairs in Dohuk province, which works to locate and free Yazidi captives, previously said that hundreds of Yazidi girls, who were abducted by the IS militants during the Sinjar massacre, were held in Fallujah with an uncertain future.
Islamic State group has [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] most parts of Sinjar (Shingal) district in northwest Iraq on August 3, 2014 which led thousands of Kurdish families to flee to Mount Sinjar, where they were trapped in it and suffered from significant lack of water and food, killing and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] of thousands of Yazidis as well as rape and captivity of thousands of women.

IS militants enslaved over 5000 Yazidi girls, women and children, since then, more than 2,000 Yazidis have escaped, been ransomed or rescued, but the rest remain unaccounted for.
Dozens of the Kurdish Yazidi girls who were kidnapped by Islamic State militants in August 2014, have been [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to other countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Chechnya, the mayor of the Yazidi town of Sinjar said in March 2016.
The rescue of the Yazidi women comes after the Iraqi government forces entered Fallujah last Friday and liberated most of the city from IS.

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