Escaped ISIS sex slave tells Congress of horrors

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/21/politics/escaped-yazidi-slave-isis-us-fight/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial

By Ryan Browne
Updated 4:40 PM ET, Tue June 21, 2016

Washington (CNN)A former ISIS sex slave urged Congress Tuesday to more aggressively fight the terror group and offered her condolences for the massacre in Orlando, saying she's not surprised by it.

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped captivity in 2014, told the Senate Homeland Security committee that "the USA must act. We must terminate Daesh (ISIS) and all such terror."

"Daesh will not give up their weapons unless we force them to give up their weapons," she testified, with the assistance of a translator. "The Yazidi people cannot wait."

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A UN report released last week estimated that ISIS holds about 3,500 slaves and that the terror group continues to subject women and children to sexual violence, particularly in the form of sexual slavery. The report said ISIS' actions "may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide."

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It is heartbreaking. But there is nothing we can effectively do but offer our hopes and best wishes that the Daesh will, in a few decades, either mellow out or taken out by the people who live in the Middle East.