United Nations: ISIS sex slaves "peddled like barrels of petrol"; $165 for a child

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New York: Islamic State is circulating a slave price list for captured women and children, and the group's ongoing appeal and barbarity pose an unprecedented challenge, a senior United Nations official says. The official, Zainab Bangura​, said that on a trip to Iraq in April she was given a copy of an Islamic State pamphlet, which included the list, showing that captured children as young as one fetch the highest price. The bidders include the group's own fighters and wealthy Middle Easterners.
"The girls get peddled like barrels of petrol," she said in an interview last week in New York. "One girl can be sold and bought by five or six different men. Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom."
For Islamic State fighters, the prices in Iraqi dinars for boys and girls aged one to nine are equal to about $US165 ($230), Mrs Bangura said. Prices for adolescent girls are $US124 and it's less for women over 20.
Kerry Crawford, who teaches at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, US, said that publicising the violations is used to the group's advantage by building internal ties and external fear.

"If you and your group are doing something that is considered taboo, your doing it together forms a bond," she said. "Sexual violence does really create fear within a population."

Sexual abuse by soldiers has a long history including the so-called rape camps in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, she said. Islamic State has made a particular practice of enslaving communities it has conquered those that are not Sunni Muslim – Yazidis and Christians, for example. It portrays such conquests as God's work, drawing disaffected Muslims from around the world.

Mrs Bangura said the international community and the UN have been taken aback by such practices because they do not resemble those of village militias in other countries.
"They have a machinery, they have a program," she said. "They have a manual on how you treat these women. They have a marriage bureau which organises all of these 'marriages' and the sale of women. They have a price list."

http://www.smh.com.au/world/islamic-state-selling-sex-slaves-the-younger-the-better-claims-un-official-20150804-giqwpw.html


Wow, theres.... not many words for this kind of stuff and these animals. ****ing disgusting.

And fighters who don't comply or approve of the situation regarding women and kids will find it even more impossible to leave ISIS. They know they'll be tainted by association and assumption by other radicalised groups. Round and round it goes, a self perpetuating horror story.

biko

It's their culture dontchaknow

TheLastMohican

A sad indictment of humanity - the accused and the inability of the accusers to stop this barbarism.

conorhal

This is why there should be no kid gloves used when dealing with Irish citizens leaving the country to fight for IS.
Nobody joining that outfit is unaware of what they do.
If sombody declared that they were off to Thailand to buy a small girl to rape for their own amusement and then perhaps murder her they could expect (I'd hope) the full weight of the law to come down on their heads. So why do we need to 'understand' and help dissafected muslim youths when they make such a declaration?

DeadHand

conorhal wrote: »

So why do we need to 'understand' and help dissafected muslim youths when they make such a declaration?

Because they are Muslim and usually of colour so are, in the PC world we live, always the victims- even when they are the perpetrators.

What ISIS do has strong doctrinal justification in Islam. It is Islam in it's purest form.

RichardCeann

ISIS have been actively recruiting a lot of girls from European countries through social media. Mostly teenagers. They're promised riches, a good husband, and a pure Islamic existence. The reality of the situation is that these girls get sold off as sex slaves or become incubators. Hopefully stories such as this will make others think twice before joining up with these nutjobs.

Public_Enema

DeadHand wrote: »

What ISIS do has strong doctrinal justification in Islam. It is Islam in it's purest form.

Islam in its purest form? Well if you think that, then it's pretty obvious that you really don't know anything about Islam.

Tombi!

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