Traumatized and lost, many Yazidi women who came of age under the brutal rule of IS struggle to come to terms with the past, while the Yazidi community is at odds over how to accept them.
The Associated Press
With the defeat of IS in 2019, Barakat slipped into the shadows, opting to hide in the turmoil that followed the worst of the battles. As IS fighters were arrested, their wives and children were packed into detention camps. Barakat was free, but she couldn’t go home. “What do you expect from a child who was raped at 12, gave birth at 13?" said Faruk Tuzu, co-chair of Yazidi House, an umbrella of Yazidi organizations in northeastern Syria. “After so much shock and abuse they don’t believe in anything anymore, they don’t belong anywhere.”
“He was better than most,” she said. At 13, she gave birth to a son, Hoodh. At the peak of the militants' self-proclaimed “caliphate," they lived in the city of Raqqa, the IS capital. Today, over 2,800 Yazidi women and children are still missing, said Tuzu. Some have cut ties and are building new lives outside the community, believing that if they return, they'd be killed. Others fear being separated from their children, fathered by IS members.
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