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Former ISIS sex slave blames world governments for allowing terrorist group to kill and destroy lives

Reuters

An Iraqi woman who was once an ISIS sex slave has put the blame on the world's silence as the main reason the terrorists' victims are dying daily.

Nadia Murad, 21, managed to escape from the terrorist group, and has opened up regarding the acts that they did to slaves like her. 

According to the first-hand testimony that she gave in London, she was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) after they killed her brothers and mother. Together with 5,000 Yazidi girls, she says she was tortured, abused and raped on a regular basis by ISIS members.

Murad said that most of the women sex slaves wished they could die, because the ISIS members made them do and endure things which she considered to be "more difficult than death."

"A year and a half has passed and the genocide against the Yazidis is continuous. We die every day because we see the world silent in the face of our plight," she said.

In her testimony, Murad said that her people, the Yazidis, have lost their trust in the government because it is not doing anything to stop the ISIS terrorist group.

She then called for the entire world to take part and join forces to fight ISIS. 

For the past two months, Murad has been campaigning to urge world leaders to bring the battle to ISIS and destroy the terrorist group.

"Two months have passed since I have been campaigning and people have been happy, not just Yazidis, about this message," she said.

There are a number of Yazidi women who have suited up to fight alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga forces against ISIS. There are also about 500 women, whose ages range from 17 to 37 years, who are reportedly waiting to be trained as fighters.