Women Are Committing Suicide ‘by the Hundreds’ to Escape ISIS’ Sex Slavery

By: American Decency Staff

A Yazidi woman who fled captivity at the hands of the Islamic State terror group has claimed that hundreds of others are taking their own lives rather than be subjected to sex slavery by the jihadists.

"We just want them to be rescued," Ameena Saeed Hasan said in a CNN report. "Hundreds of girls have committed suicide.

"I have some pictures of the girls who have committed suicide … when they lose hope for rescue and when ISIS many times sell them and rape them … I think there is maybe 100. We lost contact with most of them," she added.

While Hasan and other Yazidis have managed to escape the terror group, thousands of others remain in captivity and in great danger. IS sees the Yazidis as devil-worshipers and regularly executes men, while forcing women and children into sex slavery.

Hasan has since become an activist raising awareness for the plight of Yazidis, and has been recognized with an award from the U.S. State Department for helping IS slaves.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has praised her "courageous efforts on behalf of the Yazidi religious minority in northern Iraq, for insisting that the world give heed to the horrors that they face, and … firm commitment to helping the victims and saving lives."

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