LALISH: A young Yazidi lady who fled to Germany but returned house to northern Iraq says she can't escape her Islamic State workforce captor who held her as a intercourse slave for 3 months.
Ashwaq Haji, 19, says she ran into the person in a German grocery store in February. Traumatised through the stumble upon, she returned to Iraq the next month.
Like many other Yazidis, she used to be kidnapped through IS when the jihadists seized swathes of Iraq in the summertime of 2014.
In their ancestral region of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq, 1000's of Yazidi ladies had been killed or offered off as intercourse slaves.
The teen used to be held from August three till October 22 of 2014, when she managed to escape from the home of an Iraqi jihadist the use of the title Abu Humam who had bought her for $100, she advised AFP within the Yazidi shrine of Lalish, north of 2nd city Mosul.
The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking spiritual minority that used to be brutally persecuted through the jihadists who despise them as heretics.
Under a German government programme for Iraqi refugees, Ashwaq, her mom and a more youthful brother had been resettled in 2015 in Schwaebisch Gmuend, a town close to Stuttgart.
Her refuge in Germany, the place she took language lessons, used to be cut quick on February 21 when a person referred to as out her title in a grocery store and started speaking to her in German.
"He told me he was Abu Humam. I told him I didn't know him, and then he started talking to me in Arabic," she stated.
"He told me: 'Don't lie, I know very well that you're Ashwaq'," she stated, adding that he gave her house address and other main points of her existence in Germany.
After that experience, she in an instant phoned the native police, who advised her to contact a specialized division.
The judicial police within the Baden-Wuerttemberg region of southwestern Germany stated an inquiry used to be opened on March 13 but that Ashwaq used to be no longer present to reply to questions.
A spokesman for the German federal prosecutor's administrative center advised AFP that to this point the person's id may just no longer be confirmed "with certainty".
Germany says it has opened a number of investigations over terrorism charges or crimes against humanity involving asylum seekers linked to jihadist teams in Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan.
Ashwaq stated she had considered surveillance videos filmed within the grocery store together with German police and used to be in a position to stay them knowledgeable of her whereabouts.
But she stated that she used to be no longer keen to go back to Germany for worry of seeing her captor again.
She is back in northern Iraq together with her mom and brother, but residing in worry because she says Abu Humam has circle of relatives in Baghdad.
She wears black in a sign of mourning for 5 brothers and a sister nonetheless missing since their very own seize through IS.
At a camp for the displaced in within sight Iraqi Kurdistan the place he has been resettled, her father, Haji Hamid, 53, admits returning used to be no longer a very simple determination, even though the government proclaimed victory over IS at the finish of remaining 12 months.
"When her mother told me that she'd seen that jihadist... I told them to come back because Germany was obviously no longer a safe place for them," he advised AFP.
Life in Iraq is also no longer easy for Ashwaq or for the three,315 other Yazidis who escaped from the jihadists. A equivalent number are nonetheless being held or have long gone missing, in step with official figures.
"All the survivors have volcanos inside them, ready to explode," warned Sara Samouqi, a psychologist who works with a number of Yazidis.
"Ashwaq and her family are going through terrible times."
Ashwaq Haji, 19, says she ran into the person in a German grocery store in February. Traumatised through the stumble upon, she returned to Iraq the next month.
Like many other Yazidis, she used to be kidnapped through IS when the jihadists seized swathes of Iraq in the summertime of 2014.
In their ancestral region of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq, 1000's of Yazidi ladies had been killed or offered off as intercourse slaves.
The teen used to be held from August three till October 22 of 2014, when she managed to escape from the home of an Iraqi jihadist the use of the title Abu Humam who had bought her for $100, she advised AFP within the Yazidi shrine of Lalish, north of 2nd city Mosul.
The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking spiritual minority that used to be brutally persecuted through the jihadists who despise them as heretics.
Under a German government programme for Iraqi refugees, Ashwaq, her mom and a more youthful brother had been resettled in 2015 in Schwaebisch Gmuend, a town close to Stuttgart.
Her refuge in Germany, the place she took language lessons, used to be cut quick on February 21 when a person referred to as out her title in a grocery store and started speaking to her in German.
"He told me he was Abu Humam. I told him I didn't know him, and then he started talking to me in Arabic," she stated.
"He told me: 'Don't lie, I know very well that you're Ashwaq'," she stated, adding that he gave her house address and other main points of her existence in Germany.
After that experience, she in an instant phoned the native police, who advised her to contact a specialized division.
The judicial police within the Baden-Wuerttemberg region of southwestern Germany stated an inquiry used to be opened on March 13 but that Ashwaq used to be no longer present to reply to questions.
A spokesman for the German federal prosecutor's administrative center advised AFP that to this point the person's id may just no longer be confirmed "with certainty".
Germany says it has opened a number of investigations over terrorism charges or crimes against humanity involving asylum seekers linked to jihadist teams in Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan.
Ashwaq stated she had considered surveillance videos filmed within the grocery store together with German police and used to be in a position to stay them knowledgeable of her whereabouts.
But she stated that she used to be no longer keen to go back to Germany for worry of seeing her captor again.
She is back in northern Iraq together with her mom and brother, but residing in worry because she says Abu Humam has circle of relatives in Baghdad.
She wears black in a sign of mourning for 5 brothers and a sister nonetheless missing since their very own seize through IS.
At a camp for the displaced in within sight Iraqi Kurdistan the place he has been resettled, her father, Haji Hamid, 53, admits returning used to be no longer a very simple determination, even though the government proclaimed victory over IS at the finish of remaining 12 months.
"When her mother told me that she'd seen that jihadist... I told them to come back because Germany was obviously no longer a safe place for them," he advised AFP.
Life in Iraq is also no longer easy for Ashwaq or for the three,315 other Yazidis who escaped from the jihadists. A equivalent number are nonetheless being held or have long gone missing, in step with official figures.
"All the survivors have volcanos inside them, ready to explode," warned Sara Samouqi, a psychologist who works with a number of Yazidis.
"Ashwaq and her family are going through terrible times."
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