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 would 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, and Nigeria have a worse history.
Over the past decade, 21,000 people have been killed by terrorism on average every year. In 2017 terrorism was accountable for the .05% of global deaths.
Terrorism is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as the “unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against the civilians in the pursuit of 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 survived 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.
Nadia Murad Basee Taha is a Yazidis, who was the victim of a terror attack in Iraq by ISIS. She was born in 1993 in 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 believes in one God.
They are considered to be a peaceful community and 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 were 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.”
On August 3, 2014, when she was 19, she was at her school. She saw a movement in her area, some were escaping towards the 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 in the village.
Nadia’s village was far away from the mountains. Nadia said, “For some days 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 their 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 earnings, necklaces & money. 3 brothers of Nadia were wounded but successfully managed to escape.
All the women and younger girls in the village were taken 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 enslaved 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 and 12 years were also being sold, they resisted but were 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, forcing her to lick their toes, and raping her in inhumane 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 are 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 open 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.
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 Yazidis.
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 was also announced as the First Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of human trafficking by 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 are filled with sorrow.
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 of fighting with militants.
Whatever happened to Nadia Murad, she didn’t lose her faith in God and never thought of suicide. She was brave enough to escape and now working for humanity. Her courage is beyond imagination. There are a lot more people like Nadia going through the same miseries. The world needs humanity and urgent action, otherwise, it will keep happening forever.
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No child is born a terrorist. Sadly they are taught to be by 'adults'.
Very well said, they brainwashed by some of the groups to achieve their mission.
I pray that women, especially children, are protected from those animals...
We also hope for the same that soon this will be ended and faith in humanity re-establish.
Well-put🖤
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Surely, I will go through this.
What a courageous women she is.... after all the horrific life experiences, she find the strength to fight back and now helping others...,
God when will these monsters will be eradicated from earth.....
This women is so inspirational 👏 ❤
Yes her story is inspirational as well as painful also. People who did or are doing wrong are threat to the humanity. Hope terrorism will be end soon.
Thankyou for your appreciation.
Daesh - people simply following and acting on their religious beliefs. No different than al qaeda, boko haram, taliban. When we assign the term 'monster' to people who commit acts of atrocity without understanding the 'virtuous' motivation to act this way in small and large ways, we learn nothing. When we compare and contrast humanist principles in action to any and all religious beliefs in action, we actually start to learn something important.
It isn’t about religious beliefs or anything related to it. Its a story of a girl who foughtfor her life.
But anyone who commit this brutual kind of act to innocents are threat to humanity. No religion teaches us to perform brutality against others.
Part of my job was daily interactions with a relocated Yizidi family and so I learned their story of the horrors visited upon them by people we in Canada call ISIS (Islamic State). I learned that those who killed and enslaved family members were unquestionably Muslims absolutely convinced in the God-sanctioned righteousness of their brutality towards the Yizidi 'devil-worshippers.' I worked with rape victims and am quite familiar with Murad, her standing in the Yizidi community, and just how potent and truthful are her words. So I heard how life-long and friendly neighbours - including people who grew up together - became these so-called 'monsters' as ISIS took control. I've heard the same from Croatian refugees and Rwanda and Kurdish and Afghanistan and Rohingya refugees. The point is that the 'monsters' are all around us everyday. And we should have learned this lesson by now from various genocides. The monster is in all of us. The question is how do we stop it from getting loose. It does no one any good to believe these people who commit atrocities so easily are somewhere 'out there'.
Ah! Alright. I understand what you said here and I must agree with some of your points. And I’m sorry I misinterpreted you before.
Commit atrocities out of some beliefs and seeing others as completely others and the threat to our own belief is the root cause, as you said, with or without knowing that this is their atrocities behaviour. And these should be eliminated. Dont let losse the monsters.
But one thing I would like to say, that my point was not about the beliefs of terrorism and religious beliefs. It was about the story of Nadia Murad, that I find full of bravery and wanted to share.
"It isn’t about religious beliefs or anything related to it."
Faith-based beliefs are the root problem. Sure, that includes kinds of religious belief but it also appears in any method of thinking that places real individuals in being some representative cogs of some 'group' category. For example, the caste system. For example, apartheid. For example, any totalitarian ideology. We have to learn not to see people as ourselves, see people as those with whom we share legal rights, a common humanity, a unified biology, and so on. To commit atrocities against others ONLY requires us to see people as the Other, see the Other as semi-people outside our tribal, cultural, linguistic, ethnic, religious community. Once any people do this, then committing atrocities is actually quite easy and all too human. To divide us this way REQUIRES belief that the group identity is real and the individual concerns merely some kind of social construct that can be disregarded and eliminated by a learned method of thinking.
So when you say, "Anyone who commit this brutal kind of act to innocents are threat to humanity. No religion teach us to perform brutality," you are not addressing reality because the reality is that all of us have this capability... if we don't realize what we're doing IS atrocious behaviour outside the group-based thinking framework. And by far the biggest proponent of group-based thinking is religion writ large: to believe in the absence of compelling evidence because we are taught that that is okay... because it's moral, because it's virtuous, because it is religious, and so this makes ANY behaviour if done in the name of religion moral and virtuous because it honours the supposed teaching of some god. That's the fundamental method to teach people that it's actually okay to commit atrocities.
I cannot click like on this story. I am grateful that you have expressed it so others can at least have an understanding. Thank you. All I can ever do is lift my eyes to Heaven and say May Your Kingdom Come. in our day a-men.
I am glad and grateful for your words. Don’t worry about likes. Your words and presence is everything.
Thankyou faye.
Thank you Deepak for sharing with us Life Story of Nadia.
Her story is great inspiration for all. We always think of the problems we have in our lives and just keep complaining & blaming about it, but our difficulties are not even an inch close to the pain & sufferings she must have gone through. And despite all of that, she came out to be one of the most strongest women ever born. I salute her.
Very well said Aditi, she has given us many lessons that we should never lose hope and should always try to find our path. In her situation, many people surrender but she still fights even with the horrific disaster, and now she is the inspiration for all of us.
Thanks for perceiving my thought so well.
And your wonderful initiative of reminding the world the stories of these unsung heroes is also appreciable. Keep going.
These words of yours really making us motivated. Thankyou for your kind words.
Stay tuned for upcoming heroes.
A harrowing story, but a tremendous achievement.
Undoubtedly, she is brave and I pray everyone should have courage like her.
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breaks my heart but such a brav e courageous woman she is💖💖💖
Yes, she is truly an Ironwoman. After so many difficulties she stands for herself and her community and now she is the inspiration for many of us.
Soooo inspirational❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
Yes she is.🙂
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You have such a great blog
Thank you very much.
Such a brave heart lady ...💗
yes, she is very brave and inspiration for many people.
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