Yazidi teenagers in Australia demand freedom for women captured by ISIS terrorists

Yvette Hasan’s voice trembles as she talks about her fears for the Yazidi people.

The 15-year old is from Iraq and has been in Australia for three years.

She is part of a group of 100 Yazidis who travelled from Wagga Wagga to draw attention to the plight of the Yazidi people in a rally outside Parliament House.

She says Islamic State forces have taken up to 3,000 Yazidi women captive and fears many are still being held.

Ms Hasan said this includes her grandmother, who she has not spoken to in five years.

“Until now we don’t know anything about my grandmother. She said that ISIS moved her to Syria,” she said.

“ISIS killed and tortured all Yazidi men and women. Most of our friends, relatives and families died.”

Islamic State militants launched an offensive on Yazidi homelands in northern Iraq in August 2014.

This included targeting the large Yazidi community in Sinjar, that IS captured in the assault.

According to Amnesty International. the militants killed hundreds of men and abducted thousands of women, girls and boys from the Yazidi minority.

Source: SBS