Al Diyar cited today a feature published by Sputnik on the fifth anniversary of the enslavement and rape of Yezidis women and girls by ISIS who were abducted, August 2014, after slaughtering their families in Sinjar in front of their eyes. Sputnik released figures it obtained from the Yezidis Rescue Office about the number of kidnapped men and women, including the total number of survivors. The fate of surviving men, women and children, is reportedly still unknown, in the grip of violence and among Daesh families in the Iraqi refugee camps and inside Syria. According to the director of the Ezidis Rescue Office in Kurdistan, Hussein Qaidi, the number of kidnapped men and women rescued from the extremist abductors reached 3487 in total, including 1186 women. The number of liberated men stood at 337 in all. Speaking to Sputnik’s reporter in Iraq, Qaidi said the number of rescued children within the above total number, was 1024 girls and 940 boys. The total number of kidnapped men and women who are still detained by the terrorist organization or are missing, is 2930 persons, including 1338 women and 1592 men. For more on the article, kindly visit the link below: (https://bit.ly/2SZzgkg). (Al Diyar 2 August 2019)
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