Terrorism has a deep root which is encompassing the world by its barbarity and pandemonium. Terrorism affects both the economy and mankind in the worst way possible.

The killing of ordinary people for political purposes is often the motive of it. It has made the world havoc. Numbers of youngsters are under the trap of these terrible-minded people.

It will be a shame for kindness if we even called them ‘people’, they are nastier than bad humans. Terrorism has affected the majority of the world in which Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, India, Syria, Nigeria have a worse history.

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Over the past decade, 21,000 people are killed by terrorism on an average every year. In 2017 terrorism was accountable for the .05% of global deaths. 

Terrorism is defined in Oxford Dictionary as the “unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against the civilians in the pursuit of the political arms“. These definitions are changing over time and according to their actions. Even, there is nothing that can define terrorism.

As I mentioned, terrorism is deep-rooted, and it has impaired many people. This is a story of one brave girl who fought with the brutality of militants and survival of sexual violence but now she is a Noble Peace Prize Winner for her works to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.

Who is Nadia Murad?

Nadia Murad Basee Taha is a Yazidis, who was the victim of a terror attack in Iraq by ISIS. She was born in 1993 at Kocho, Sinjar District, Iraq. She belongs to the Yazidis Minority community.

Yazidis, are the Kurmanji-Speaking minority, which lives in the middle east, and today they live in disputed territories of Northern Iraq. Yazidsim is a monotheistic presumption-based community that believed in one God.

They are considered to be a peaceful community, never think to harm others. They have good relations with everyone.

Nadia belongs to a farming background, along with her 9 brothers. Her 6 brothers were married and living their life happily. Nadia said, “Everything was going normal, we are happy with our life and then the day came that changed everything forever”

Nadia Dictated her story “That day was also the same as other days, sunrises gloriously, birds were chirping, men were earning for their livelihood. Everyone was happy, Everyone was living their life politely until the monster came and destroyed everything.”

What Happened in 2014 In Sinjar?

On August 3, 2014,  when she was 19, she was at her school. She saw a movement in her area, some were escaping towards Mountain to save their life. Then she came to know that ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or Daesh(Islamic State) captured the village for human trafficking. They attacked Yazidis in Sinjar.

The mountain was far away from their village, some Yazidis fled but some failed to escape from the brutal terror. She saw that Daesh was shooting from the edge of the village and was killing thousands of men, elders, and disabled people of the village.

Nadia’s village was far away from the mountains. Nadia said, “For somedays they just surrounded the village but didn’t enter and we know something dreadful is about to happen to us. We received no help from outside, Iraq or elsewhere.”

They left two alternatives in front of them “either join Islam or die”. Other communities like Shias and Christians were forced to leave their homes previously.

ISIL was murdering the people either by shooting them or chopping heads. Nadia was worried about her family but later she came to know that her 6 brothers out of 9 were also brutally massacred by those devils.

They captured all the people in the village and then they separated 700 men from the group and massacred all of them. They were taking all the valuable things like earning, necklace & money. 3 brothers of Nadia were wounded but successfully managed to escape.

All the women and younger girls in the village were taken to captive by them. Old ladies were murdered and children abducted. They took some young boys to their training camps.

The whole village was devastated by them and monsters among them. All the captive girls and women are then divided among different groups. They took 150 women including Nadia and 3 of her younger nieces by bus to Mosul (ISIS state) at night.

On the way to Mosul, Nadia said that they have fear of something bad going to happen, either they will kill them or something else. Nevertheless, their motive was worse than Nadia probably could have ever imagined.

They took them to the headquarters of Mosul, where around 400 Yazidi women were already kept slaved by ISIS from other villages. She was broken down after confirming from one lady that they’ve been brought here and will be sold out soon.

She was in a place which is also known as the sex market where different prices are ticketed on women according to their usability. People came bought them, raped them and brought them back. The girls between 10-12 years were also being sold, they resisted but forced to go with the men. Her face was covered with some clothes so she was not able to saw who purchased her that time.

Later she came to know that one man also purchased her and took her to his home. He raped her every day violently and in every inhumane way possible. They were scorching her with the cigarettes, forced her to lick their toes, raping her in unusual ways.

Once she tried to escape from the place but was caught by the Daesh militants. Because they were everywhere in Mosul and it was very hard to escape from this hell.

They gang-raped her as a punishment and there was a rule that captured women are the spoil of war and if they caught escaping then they will be put in the cell and will be a rape victim of every man there. That shattered her to the core and thereafter she never thought to escape from their captivity again.

But one day, Nadia found the door opened when she was with another man who was going to sell her and asked her to get ready with clothes and she successfully fled from that miserable place.

Nadia’s Life After An Escape from Mosul

After the escape, she protects herself by reaching a Muslim family, not connected with ISIS and Daesh. They helped her to escape to the Kurdish governed territory and provided her black abaya and an Islamic ID.

Later, Nadia Murad left for Germany as a part of the refugee program for survivors of ISIS. She then asked to speak before the UN Security Council on human trafficking. She later settled in Germany and started an initiative to help Yazidi’s.

She married Abid Shamdeen in August 2018, a fellow of Yazidi human rights Activists. In 2018 Nadia announced the initiative named Nadia Initiative intends to provide advocacy and assistance to sufferers of Genocide.

Then she also announced as the First Goodwill Ambassadors for the Dignity of Survivors of human trafficking of the United Nations (UNODC).

In 2018 She along with Denis Mukwege were jointly given the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a tool of war and armed conflict.

Nadia said in an interview ” If I were a man when Daesh came in. I might be killed in one bullet. But because one is a woman she will be raped”. Her words clearly show the pain inside her.

Her Notable works are The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State. There is also one Documentary named “On her Shoulders”. Which has covered her brave story to fight with militants.

Whatever happened to Nadia Murad, she didn’t lose her faith in God, never had a thought of suicide. She was brave enough to escape and now working for humanity. Her courage is beyond imagination. There are lot more people like Nadia going through the same miseries. The world needs humanity and urgent action, otherwise, it will keep happening forever.

Edited By:- Ritish Sharma

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