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Displaced female demonstrators from the minority Yazidi sect gather during a protest outside the headquarters of the UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) in northern Arbil province, north of Baghdad, August 2, 2015. Kurdish Yazidi citizens demonstrated in the northern province of Erbil on the anniversary of ISIS terrorism against Yazidis in Sinjar REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

Islamic State, besides being a terrorist organisation aimed at establishing a Caliphate, also runs a parallel, covert business of sex trade. Innumerable women are traded as “livestocks” to rich masters only to get beaten up, tortured and raped. The few of those who manage to escape the doom tell their harrowing stories to the world, and Jinan, an 18-year-old Yazidi, is one of them.

Jinan was captured by the Islamic State fighters in Iraq and was in their custody for three months before she managed to evade them, she said during the official launch of a book about her called "Daesh’s Slave" in Paris. She was kidnapped when the IS fighters scourged the northern parts of Iraq, mostly inhabited by Yazidis, a religious minority. She was moved to different places before being sold to a former policeman and an Imam.

She gave detailed accounts of how she and other captured women were treated by their captors. “They tortured us, tried to forcefully convert us. If we refused we were beaten, chained outdoors in the sun, forced to drink water with dead mice in it. Sometimes they threatened to torture us with electricity,” she said. “These men are not human. They only think of death, killing. They take drugs constantly. They seek vengeance against everyone. They say that one day Islamic State will rule over the whole world.”

She also told that the best-looking girls were reserved for the top bosses and for the wealthy clients from the Gulf. Jinan also overheard two of her owners, who thought she didn’t understand Arabic, saying that a buyer cannot purchase more than three women unless he is a Syrian, Iraqi or from a rich Gulf Nation.

Another 18-year-old Yazidi girl, Hannan, who was taken into captivity by the militants, also gave similar account of the experience to a BBC News reporter in December 2014 after she eluded her captors. Hannan and Jinan both gave accounts of Mosul, where they were dragged to a massive reception hall for the slave trading.

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