Yezidi minority representative Ms Nadia Murad (originally replaced
by statement from Nareem Shamo)
Mr Chairman,
My name is Nadia Murad. I am from the Yazidi minority in Singar. I
am 20 years old. I have been kidnapped by ISIL on 15 August
2014 from my village (...) Southern Singar. After all the men in my
village have been collectively executed, my brother is one survivor
of this massacre.
I have been enslaved and sold dozens of times in (these) areas for
more than three months. I have been separated from my mother
and my sisters and I haven't seen my mother after this instance. I
have been witness to cases of forced abortions, to rape of minors,
to separation of newborns from their mothers. I have seen all those
atrocities. I come from a (nature) tribe and it is internally displaced
now, our children are in ISIL camps in Syria, our men, they have
been killed, some have been missing and a lot of our women are
still abducted and kidnaped. With two of my sisters we were able to
flee ISIL by ourselves. My oldest sister has been able to flee Syria
two months ago. Mr. Chairman, I don't know what is the
terminology that you use to reflect the killings of a whole nation, yet
I would like to remind you of the extermination of my village (Kozho)
where more than 700 men have been killed in one hour, including
my sex brothers. They have dispached us - women, among the
members and have been taken them to places; and I would like to
call you to investigate the crimes against Yazidi by ISIL and
consider those crimes as a genocide. I live for now in Germany
where the German government is supporting a lot of the Yazidi
survivors. Yet alongside other Yazidis are still waiting to know the
whereabouts of 20 persons of my family.
I came here to tell you that I am defenceless minority. I lost hope in
your policies. Thousands of kidnapped and abducted still dream of
freedom, it is not too late to call for liberation. I would like to say