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24 August 2015updated 26 Jan 2016 2:05pm

“He treated me like an animal”: surviving life as a sex slave of Islamic State

We speak to two young Yazidi women who were taken as sex slaves by Isis, and are now in a refugee camp.

By Lara Whyte

Munira explains to me matter-of-factly that the younger girls are more expensive or saved for the Emirs.

“They took me and my 13-year-old sister together to a big room in the Al-Baaj district. I was in a room with another 50 girls. We arrived at night, and then the next day, we were selected by the fighters,” says the 16-year-old Yazidi girl.

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