Yezidi women fear the Islamic state women who rerturn

[pieter]

"IS women helped fighters raping our women"

Written by: Lennard Swolfs - editor Abroad NOS (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting; Dutch Broadcast Foundation)


Parween Alhinto was raped by Islamic State fighters and fled to the Netherlands one year ago from Iraq

Victims of the Islamic State in the Jezidi community are concerned about the possible return of IS women to the Netherlands. On Wednesday two women, who had traveled from the Netherlands to the IS area, reported to the Dutch embassy in Ankara with their children. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they want to return to the Netherlands.

A group of Dutch IS women and their children also want to force the Dutch State to collect them from the Kurdish prison camps in northern Syria. The summary proceedings are today.

"The women were the worst"



This leads to great fright and incomprehension among victims of IS in the Jezidi community. "The IS women were worse than the fighters," says 21-year-old Parween Alhinto. "They beat the imprisoned women and helped the fighters rape them."

Parween was detained for four months at IS (Islamic State/Daesh) in northern Iraq. She was in the hands of IS men, who raped her regularly. Her ten-year-old sister was sold into slavery and brought to Syria. "There they lived in a house with IS women. My sister told me afterwards that the women of the fighters were the worst." Parween hopes that the IS supporters in Iraq will be tried and never released again.

Not only Parween, but the entire Jezidi community in the Netherlands is surprised at the discussion about bringing IS women and their children back to the Netherlands. "Thousands of Jezidi women are still trapped in refugee camps in northern Iraq," says Dalal Ghanim (23). "The Dutch government should help these people, not the IS supporters." Wahhab Hassoo (24): "There is no appropriate punishment for these people." Dalal and Wahhab were already in the Netherlands when IS invaded in 2014, but have lost many family members.

The Jezidis are an ethnic and religious minority group in Iraq. On 3 August 2014, IS invaded the northern Iraqi city of Sinjar, where many Jezidis live. The terror group sees them as heretics and devil worshipers. Women were enslaved, children trained as warriors, and men were given the choice: convert to Islam or death. Hundreds of thousands of Jezidis fled into the mountains near the city of Sinjar. The United Nations has labeled the attack as a genocide.

At the end of 2014, the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters recaptured the Sinjar Mountains from the terror group. Thousands of Jezidis have fled to Europe, but a large part of the community still lives in refugee camps in northern Iraq today. Parween's brother and sister too. "I hope they come to the Netherlands", she sighs. "The hardest thing is that I am divorced from my family. I haven't seen them in five years." She does have telephone contact with her sister.

Jezidis


Parween Alhinto was raped by Islamic State fighters and fled to the Netherlands one year ago from Iraq

The Jezidis are an ethnic and religious minority group in Iraq. On 3 August 2014, IS invaded the northern Iraqi city of Sinjar, where many Jezidis live. The terror group sees them as heretics and devil worshipers. Women were enslaved, children trained as warriors, and men were given the choice: convert to Islam or death. Hundreds of thousands of Jezidis fled into the mountains near the city of Sinjar. The United Nations has labeled the attack as a genocide.

At the end of 2014, the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters recaptured the Sinjar Mountains from the terror group. Thousands of Jezidis have fled to Europe, but a large part of the community still lives in refugee camps in northern Iraq today. Parween's brother and sister too. "I hope they come to the Netherlands", she sighs. "The hardest thing is that I am divorced from my family. I haven't seen them in five years." She does have telephone contact with her sister.

Preliminary injunction

Today's summary proceedings involve 23 women and 56 children who want the Dutch state to retrieve them from Kurdish prison camps in northern Syria. The women traveled to Syria from the Netherlands to join IS.

Their lawyers state that the Netherlands has a duty to pick up the women, because it acts differently in violation of international human rights treaties. The government has indicated that it is concerned about their situation, but believes that it was the women's choice to travel to Syria. The Dutch government therefore does not want to actively retrieve women and children.

Only if they report to the Dutch representation in Erbil (Iraq) or Ankara (Turkey) will the government be prepared to bring them to the Netherlands. That happened on Wednesday. It is not yet known what will happen to the two women and three children in Ankara.

Translated from Dutch to English by Pieter with Google translate.

[pieter]

Source: nos.nl/artikel/2308525-is-vrouwen-hielpen-strijders-bij-het-verkrachten-van-onze-vrouwen.html (Put https:// before the link and then it opens)

[pieter]

Imprisoned, tortured and abused (raped) by Islamic state


Here Parween Alhinto told her story one 13 june 2017 in a refugee center in Kurdistan in Northern Iraq to the Dutch Moroccan Public tv reporter Nadia Moussaid.

In this video she showed the image of her mother on her cellphone who was prisoner of Daesh (Islamic State) in that time.

[Jaga]

Pieter, these are terrible stories, especially since women are doing things against other women. The face of this woman telling her story is very characteristic and beautiful.

[pieter]

Yes, these are terrible stories, Parween Alhinto tells to the world via Dutch television. She told the reporter, that when they were captured young girls were taken away from their mothers by heavily armed Islamic state fighters. She told that they were kept under difficult, unsafe, and terrible conditions and that the Islamic State women were superior to them and helped the Islamic State men abusing young girls, teenage girls and women. They were taken to a shower, before they were taken away and sold to Islamic State fighters as slaves. One of Alhinto girlfriends killed herself by slitting her wrists. She saw the blood coming from under the door. Her friend wanted to escape from the abuse, slavery and rape. So she took her own life to escape terror, torture, slavery, abuse by men ad women and to escape the life of being a subhuman who is treated badly.

[pieter]

I agree with you that her face is very characteristic, handsome and beautiful. She reminds me of beautiful Kurd women and girls I saw from Turkish Kurdistan, Syrian Kurdistan, Northern Iraq and Iran. These Yezide people are very close to the Kurds in the ethnic sense.