Editor’s Be aware: Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate who advocates for survivors of sexual violence and genocide. She is a United Nations Business office on Drugs and Crime goodwill ambassador and founder of Nadia’s Initiative. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. See additional belief at CNN.
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Feelings and prayers. Promises of “never once again.” They are not more than enough. 7 decades after ISIS dedicated genocide versus the Yazidi community, my ethno-spiritual minority, in Iraq, hundreds of hundreds of men and women continue being internally displaced and more than 2,800 girls and little ones continue to be lacking. Shelter, clean up drinking water, wellbeing treatment and instruction are luxuries, if obtainable at all.
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Nadia Murad
Individuals of us who ended up there – who ran for our life to the protection of Mount Sinjar, who heard the gunshots as adult males and more mature women have been shot and dumped into mass graves, and who, like me, had been sold into sexual slavery – are not able to fail to remember what took place or how the entire world dismissed our cries for assistance.
Soon after escaping from my ISIS captors, I lived in a camp alongside hundreds of Yazidis. I felt the uncooked humiliation of residing in makeshift tents without having privateness, operate, or instruction. I observed these ailments erode our traditions, our way of life, and our communal ties.
