Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Slavery

(cont'd)

What happens to those victims kidnapped by IS (Islamic State)? They wind up as slaves. A United Nations official got hold of an IS pamphlet that listed prices for the women and children they had captured.
Who buys them? IS fighters and wealthy Middle Easterners. Young children fetch the highest prices.

Defeated communities are enslaved by IS as long as they are not Sunni Muslim: Yazidis and Christians would be examples subject to slavery.

from Bloomberg

Postscript: An article appeared today (Aug. 13) in NYTimes confirming that sex slavery is now formally part of the Islamic State organization. Rules and procedures are codified and Yazidis appear to be targeted.

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