Tessa Berenson @tcberenson
Dec. 22, 2014
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Militants
with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have enslaved and sexually
brutalized scores of women, selling them into marriage or giving them as gifts
to militant fighters, according to a new report.
Since
August, ISIS has captured hundreds, if not
thousands of Yezidi women and girls and taken them into sexual slavery as part
of an ethnic cleansing movement, the Amnesty International report says. The
Yezidis are a Kurdish ethnoreligious minority group that has been historically
oppressed by Sunni extremists.
