A Yazidi survivor spoke with Channel8 about the life she spent during her captivity by the Islamic State (ISIS), describing it as a journey of torment and terror.
She spoke to Channel8, saying, “ISIS separated us from our families, and this is a very difficult matter. They raped us and sold us from one person to another, and we suffered a lot, and this tragedy affected our psyche as well.”
Kofan Eido Khorto is now 24. She was 14 when ISIS abducted her from the village of Hardan in Sinjar district in Nineveh province.
Kofan is one of the thousands of Yazidi women who were captured by ISIS after they invaded her village in the Sinjar region in August 2014. They transported her with many Yazidi women who were forced by the organization’s members to move to Syria.
Kofan says she was forced to be a servant—so to speak—for ISIS members, and she became their property. They forced her to marry members of the organization more than three times, in addition to offering her for sale and trafficking.
She explained to Channel8: “When I remember my family, I cry a lot, and I feel sad, and I think a lot about my sisters and how they went through what I went through, and they are younger than me and are still children.”
Kofan was liberated from the hands of ISIS on February 4 by the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in al-Hol camp in Syria, to join the ranks of other Yazidi women survivors, while the fate of more than two thousand other Yazidi women remains unknown, despite the efforts.
