Nadia Murad

Back in 2014, Nadia was living a quiet life with her Yazidi minority family in an Iraqi village. Then Islamic State carved a brutal path through Iraq. IS violently took over her village, executed her mother, murdered six of her brothers, and made Nadia into a sex slave.

She published her story, The Last Girl, in 2017. She was tortured, beaten, and repeatedly raped by members of Islamic State, whose "research" concluded that Yazidi are actually  property, not persons.

She managed to escape after three months of captivity and fled to Germany. She became an activist speaking out on behalf of other Yazidi, who are one of the minorities targeted for genocide by Islamic State.

Click on the Iraq or IslamicState labels to get some background on the terror and minority persecution that was IS.

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