Two weeks after her rescue by the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) from Gaza, Yazidi survivor Fawzia Amin Sido has shared harrowing particulars of the atrocities she endured throughout her captivity underneath ISIS.
At solely 9 years outdated, Sido was captured alongside together with her brothers and compelled to march from Sinjar to Tal Afar. Throughout this time, she and others starved for 3 days earlier than being fed rice and meat, which they later realized was the meat of Yazidi infants.
“They made rice and gave us meat to go along with it. The meat had an odd style and a few of us had abdomen pains afterwards,” he stated.
“Once we completed, they advised us that it was Yazidi child meat. They confirmed us footage of decapitated infants and stated, ‘These are the youngsters you’re consuming now.'”
“A lady suffered coronary heart failure and died shortly afterward,” Sido added. In a single heartbreaking second, she described how a mom acknowledged her personal youngster by the newborn’s fingers.
“They pressured us. However it is rather tough to know what occurred. Nevertheless it was not in our fingers,” he stated.
Fawzia Sido was considered one of many Yazidi girls enslaved by ISIS in 2014, in the course of the group’s brutal marketing campaign towards the Yazidis, a non secular minority in northern Iraq. Sido’s account is among the clearest confirmations of accusations made prior to now that ISIS fed human flesh to its captives, a follow first highlighted by Yazidi parliamentarian Vian Dakhil in 2017.
She was held captive for 9 months in an underground jail together with 200 different Yazidi girls and youngsters. Some youngsters died from contaminated water.
Sido was additionally offered to a number of jihadist fighters, together with Abu Amar al-Makdisi, with whom she had two youngsters.
Lately rescued in a joint IDF and US embassy operation, Sido has returned to her household in Iraq, however her youngsters stay in Gaza together with her captor’s household, the place they’re being raised as Muslim Arabs.
Reflecting on her expertise, she said: “Till I returned to Iraq, I used to be a ‘sabaya’ on a regular basis, additionally in Gaza,” utilizing the Arabic time period for a younger girl held captive and sexually exploited.
