Doctors in Kurdistan are breaking the law by performing abortions on young Yazidi girls who have been released after being held as sex slaves by ISIS fighters.
Traumatised after months of rape and torture at the hands of ISIS militants, some of victims have returned after falling pregnant by their captors and further at risk at being ostracised by their community, which frowns upon pre-marital sex.
Now, some Kurdish doctors are allegedly performing illegal abortions and secret surgeries to ‘reverse loss of virginity’ on the victims, some of whom are as young as eight.
The women who have escaped now face being shunned by their strict religious communities, and many are erase to hide the physical evidence of their time in captivity.
Some Yazidi girls are secretly undergoing abortions, banned in Kurdistan even in cases of rape, and seeking hymen surgery to ‘reverse the loss of virginity’.
A recent study by Human Rights watch has found that ISIS fighters have been kidnapping women and children as young as eight, forcing them to marry and convert to Islam and raping them repeatedly.
Hundreds have been able to return, either by fleeing or being set free by ISIS, and many young women who has been held as sex slaves.
Now they are urging that survivors get the medical and psychological treatment that they need to cope with the unimaginable trauma they suffered.
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