They are the Force of the Sun Ladies – many of them former ISIS sex slaves who have escaped their jihadi tormentors.They have suffered the worst atrocities imaginable, rape and torture – with some having lost everything, reports the New Day.
One woman describes giving birth while being held as a sex slave then being forbidden to feed her newborn son.
When her baby cried out in hunger, the woman’s captor beheaded him.
The grief endured by these women is unimaginable.
Having escaped their captors, were they to have abandoned all hope and turned their faces to the wall, the world would have understood their despair.
Instead, driven by the desire for revenge, they are hitting back, having formed an all-female battalion whose aim is to attack their abusers in Iraq .In the summer of 2014, one of Iraq’s oldest minorities, the Yazidis, were forced to flee to Mount Sinjar in the north-west – or face slaughter by an encircling group of ISIS Jihadists.
Many of them saw their loved ones massacred in their thousands after ISIS stormed their villages.
Now, in retaliation, they’re preparing for an offensive on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, where many of them were exchanged by militants to serve as their sex slaves. Around 5,000 Yazidi men and women were captured by ISIS militants in that 2014 assault. Some 2,000 managed to escape or were smuggled out of ISIS-held territory in Iraq and Syria, emerging with heart-rending stories of sexual abuse and torture.Sadly, the misery goes on. The United Nations says ISIS is still holding an estimated 3,500 people in Iraq, the majority of them women and girls from the Yazidi community. Some managed to escape when coalition forces pounded ISIS from the air and broke its siege of Mount Sinjar. But thousands starved to death or died of heatstroke.
ISIS later systematically killed men, and women deemed too old or too young to be sold into sexual slavery. Boys who could be brainwashed and conscripted as child soldiers were kidnapped, while women taken as captives were ordered to convert to Islam, subjected to forced marriages and repeatedly raped.