The Women Who Sued Isis
Marie Claire South Africa|November 2018

Sold as a sex slave to brutal Is is warriors at the age of 19, Nadia Murad made a desperate escape. now, the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate has joined forces with human rights lawyer Amal Clooney to bring the men responsible to justice.

Alexandra Carlton
The Women Who Sued Isis

Nadia Murad had a plan. The Isis fighter who had purchased her body at a slave market weeks before, was distracted downstairs. Since he had enslaved her, Hajji Salman had dressed the teen in flimsy clothes and make-up – something the modest young woman had never worn before – then raped and beat her daily. Today, he ordered her upstairs like a dog to await the moment he felt like using her again, but Nadia had other ideas. Alone and frightened, she stood at the second-floor window and spotted an empty oil drum on the ground below that she felt could be used as a stepping stone to freedom. Pulling on a black niqab (an Islamic garment not worn by her people, the Yazidi, but that she thought would help disguise her once she made her escape) the 19-year-old climbed out the window. She began to lower her torso, suddenly realising the drum was too far to reach. As her feet stretched desperately to make contact with safety, she heard the heartstopping sound of a gun being cocked.

A man’s voice yelled for her to go back inside. ‘I froze; my body folded over the windowsill,’ she wrote in her memoir, The Last Girl. Heaving herself back into the room, she curled up in a ball, sick with fear, awaiting her fate. ‘The door opened and Hajji Salman came in, carrying a whip in his hands,’ Nadia recalls. ‘Screaming, I threw myself onto the bed and pulled a thick comforter over my entire body and head, hiding the way a child hides. Salman stood beside the bed and without a word started beating me. The whip came down hard, over and over, so fast and with so much anger that the thick blanket did little to protect me.’

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