Islamic State terrorists use WhatsApp, Telegram to sell women, girls as sex slaves

[MariaThinks]

Source: Times of India

KHANKE, Iraq: The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon."

The posting in Arabic appeared on an encrypted conversation along with ads for kittens, weapons and tactical gear. It was shared with the Associated Press by an activist with the minority

While the Islamic State group is losing territory in its self-styled caliphate, it is tightening its grip on the estimated 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves. In a fusion of ancient barbaric practices and modern technology, IS sells the women like chattel on smart phone apps and shares databases that contain their photographs and the names of their "owners" to prevent their escape through IS checkpoints. The fighters are assassinating smugglers who rescue the captives, just as funds to buy the women out of slavery are drying up.

The thousands of Yazidi women and children were taken prisoner in August 2014, when IS fighters overran their villages in northern Iraq with the aim to eliminate the Kurdish-speaking minority because of its ancient faith. Since then, Arab and Kurdish smugglers managed to free an average of 134 people a month. But by May, an IS crackdown reduced those numbers to just 39 in the last six weeks, according to figures provided by the Kurdistan regional government.



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[TexasMommaWithAHat]

1. Ugh

[kacekwl]

2. Who is answering these ads and

is there no way for law enforcement or government officials to find out ? This kind of shit drives me crazy. They know when I search for headphones online to bombard me with ads to buy their product but we have no way to track this . I'm beginning to think no one wants to for whatever reason. Who is doing this , who is funding ISIS , This is nonsense.

[ansible]

4. The ads are in arabic

[kacekwl]

5. Is ISIS the only one who can read Arabic ?

[iandhr]

3. These monsters need to be wiped off the face of the earth.

[smirkymonkey]

6. I agree. Everything they do is absolutely sickening.