A woman who escaped the clutches of ISIS after being sold to the sinister death cult as a sex slave is hoping to embark on a new life in Australia.
Nihad Barakat Shamo Alawsi was 15-years-old when she was kidnapped by the terror group in her home town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq in 2014.
She was held against her will, tortured, and left with a child who was the product of rape. But the courageous Yazidi teenager is ready for a new beginning.
Nihad Barakat Shamo Alawsi is seeking a protection visa in Australia by the end of the year
Now 18, Nihad is freed from the brutal rule of ISIS and seeking to relocate to Australia with her family.
She hopes to be granted a protection visa by the end of the year before completing her studies, reports Sydney Morning Herald.
‘I would like to go there to continue to work to be a teacher.’
Australia is one of the few countries willing to keep her family together.
Australia announced it would welcome 18,750 people seeking protection after being displaced by the conflict in war-torn Syria and Iraq.
The government announced in March it would grant protection visas to 12,000 people escaping the conflict zone.
She 15-years-old when she was kidnapped by the terror group in her home town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq in 2014
Last year, Nihad laid bare the horror of life under the rule of the terror group.
‘They raped us, they killed our men, they took our babies away from us,’ she told an event in London last year.
‘The worst thing was the torture in Mosul. We were beaten and raped continuously for two weeks.’
Nihad gave birth to a baby boy and managed to escape when three months later after the baby’s father decided to marry her to his cousin.
She made a phone call to her family and was then rescued by Steve Maman from The Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq (CYCI).
‘I managed to escape, but I had to leave the baby behind,’ she said.
The Sunni militants captured around 5,000 Yazidi men and women in summer 2014.
Islamic State considers the Yazidis to be devil-worshippers. The ancient Yazidi faith blends elements of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam.
ISIS killed or kidnapped 9900 Yazidis over the course of just a few days in August 2014 in a brutal “purification” of northern Iraq.