VOA常速英语:被解救的雅兹迪妇女回忆IS囚禁的骇人之处

Rescued only late last month,Bahar tells a story of another grandmother, like herself, who was held by Islamic State militants for more than two years.

The woman, she says, complained and was beaten with a stick.

“Living there was all about fear, they would come and take the girls or whoever they wanted;they would beat us, they would hurt us; they would tear apart families.”

Young women, she explains, was sold for “marriage”, a euphemism for sexual slavery.Victims say even as captives, with almost no capacity to resist, they were raped violently.

“The most difficult of this is when they raped 10- or 12-year-old girls.They would take babies from their mothers’ arms and chop off their heads.The things they have done to us—God would not accept it.”

Yazidi cities and villages lie largely in ruins,and rescued victims often return to find their homes destroyed and families living in camps or abandoned villages.

And as the Iraqi Army pushes into Mosul hoping to expel IS, officials say the militants are further isolating their hostages,making it harder than ever to conduct rescue operations.

Heather Murdock, VOA news, Dohuk, Kurdish Iraq.