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All-female Yazidi battalion unites to seek revenge on ISIS

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Group seeks revenge for all the murders and rape.

An all-female Yazidi battalion risks their lives as they unite to fight back against ISIS for abducting, raping and murdering thousand's of the Yazidi people.

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By Linky C. (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
8/18/2015 (8 years ago)

Published in Middle East

Keywords: Yazidi singer, ISIS, Anti-terrorism

MUNTINLUPA CITY, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - A yazidi singer, Xate Shingali, who performs the traditional Yazidi folklore music all over the Northern part of Iraq, was given permission by the Kurdish President to form an all-woman fighting unit aimed to fight against ISIS.

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The battalion called the "Sun Girls" battalion faces the possibility of death and other horrible things if they end up being captured by ISIS. They could end up killed, or most likely held as captives and personal sex slaves for the terrorist group.

However, the girls brush off this possibility. Even the youngest member of the battalion, a 17-year old is prepared for the worst.

"Even if they kill me, I will say I am a Yazidi."

ISIS has already kidnapped thousands of Yazidi women, including very young girls, when the grouped stormed villages in the Sinjar province located in the Northern parts or Iraq a year ago. Those who managed to escape from the Jihadists share stories of how they endured cruelty and sexual abuse from the terrorists, who forced them into marriage.

The battalion was formed in early July and has recruited a total of 123 female fighters between the ages of 17 and 30. These women are being trained by male Kurdish fighters on how to use AK47s outside the Sharya refugee camp.

"We have had only basic training and we need more. But we are ready to fight ISIS anytime," explained Shingali, one of the fighters.

While male Kurdish soldiers are executed on camera, there are rumors that ISIS is afraid of killing Yazidi women, because they worry about the possibility of not being able to achieve and be rewarded with "72 virgins in heaven."

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