Yazidi girl traumatized by ISIS abuse sets herself on fire

A teenage Yazidi girl said she was so terrified at the thought of being captured and raped again by the Islamic State fighters that she set herself on fire.

Yasmin escaped the clutches of IS last year after spending a week of captivity, but she said the experience so terrified her that she still cried and heard their voices even when she already at stayed a refugee camp.

Yasmin imagined the fighters coming for her again, so she set herself ablaze in order to look undesirable. She ended up physically disfigured that she now wears loose clothes to protect her skin and needs a machine to help her breathe.

Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, a German psychologist with a Turkish Kurd background specializing in trauma and professor at Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, then saw her condition and brought her to Germany for physical and psychological treJan Ilhan Kizilhanatment.

"I said, of course I want to go there and be safe, and be the old Yasmin again," the 18-year-old Yazidi girl told the Associated Press.

She's now reunited and living together with her family as she faces between five and 15 surgeries.

Kizilhan personally selected all the 1,100 women aged four to 56 for the program launched by Baden-Wuerttemberg Gov. Winfried Kretschmann.

"He was shocked by many pictures of beheaded Christians and Yazidis and other groups, and his reaction was 'we have to do something,'" Politico quoted Kizilhan as saying.

The German doctor explained that the Islamic State do not consider their victims as fellow human beings and likened the atrocities to that of the Nazi regime.

"It was an evil that I had never seen in my life," he told AP. "I'm experienced in trauma, I had already worked with patients from Rwanda, from Bosnia, but this was very different. If you have an 8-year-old girl in front of you and she's saying she was sold eight times by IS and raped 100 times during 10 months, how can humankind be so evil?"