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Arabic obtained documents confirming the atrocities committed by Daesh against
Iraqi Christians.
The
documents mention a female under the pseudonym “T,” who was forced
to endure inhuman suffering, until she was bought and rescued.
She
was captured in al-Hamdaniya district on August 7, 2014, where
for more than a thousand years, Christians had been living. “T” was
raped, forced to abandon her faith and wear a hijab.
The
29-year-old woman, together with her child, was taken to Mosul where she was resold three times and ultimately
ending up in Raqqa, Syria. After she was bought she was raped
by multiple men for two days in front of her child.
After
her terrible ordeal “T” is now free. There was a man who paid the money
for her ransom and now she hopes that someday she will be able
to return that money to her savior.
This
is just one story from a document archive uncovered after the town’s
liberation. The archive contains information on 100 Christians who were
killed or captured by the terrorists in Iraq or Syria. The fate of many residents still remains unknown.
More
than 55 thousand people hailing from all faiths were living
in the Hamdaniya District, located 32 kilometers south-east of Mosul
before the terrorists took over the city.
The
brutal captors took women as slaves and young men were told to change
their faith and join the ranks of the terrorists. If they refused
to do so, they were forced pay a tax called Jizya or die.
The terrorists also robbed residents of their possessions
and took their gold, jewelry and money.
According
to one resident, “On August 6, 2014, Daesh militants entered the district
of Hamdaniya. I together with my wife and kids decided to stay
in the field. But the terrorists found us and started shooting
over our heads. They ordered us to go to the mosque.”
He
said that afterwards they were led to a Sharia court where they were
beaten and forced to convert to Islam.
“Daesh
took everything we had: the gold jewelry of my wife totaling 13 million
dinars, that is about 12 thousand dollars, they also took our sheep, the
price of which exceeded 50 million dinars. It was yet another attempt
to make sure that we did not run away,” the resident told Sputnik Arabic.
He
further said that the terrorists wanted him to join Daesh. However, he
refused to do so and together with his family he went to Mosul.
From there on to Hawija which is still occupied by the terrorists.
Then by some miracle they managed to get to Kirkuk.
Nine
elderly people aged 66 to 90 refused to leave their homeland in which they
were born and raised. The terrorists left them to die of hunger and
terror in their own homes. Those who converted to Islam received some
medication.
Three
of the dead men were buried in the yard of their homes, whereas,
the bodies of other people were sent to the local cemetery. No one
knows exactly where their graves are.
Since
the beginning of the operation for the liberation of Mosul
in October 2016, Iraqi forces which include the Nineveh defenders, have
liberated the town of Hamdani and released four women and two men
from Daesh prisons.
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