UN envoy reveals how sex slaves are 'peddled like barrels of petrol'
- The women refused to practice 'sexual jihad', a Kurdish official has claimed
- He also claimed money, distribution of women has created a rift within ISIS
- ISIS published 'price list' of captured Yazidi, Christian sex slaves last year
- UN envoy verified the document as genuine after spending time in region
ISIS fanatics have executed 19 women for refusing to have sex with its fighters, a Kurdish official has said.
He claimed the women were being held hostage in Islamic State's stronghold of Mosul, Iraq, which the terror group seized in June last year.
Meanwhile a UN envoy investigating Islamic State's vile sex trade has said 'girls get peddled like barrels of petrol' and one can be bought by six different men.
She also verified a disturbing ISIS document which suggested the extremists sell the Yazidi and Christian women and children they have abducted, with girls aged just one to nine-years-old fetching the most money.
ISIS stormed the Sinjar district in northern Iraq last year and captured hundreds of women belonging to the Yazidi community, who the Islamists view as heretics.
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Barbaric: ISIS fanatics have reportedly executed 19 women (file photo) for refusing to have sex with its fighters
Despicable: The UN's special envoy for sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Bangura, said: 'Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom'
It is not known whether the 19 women executed - supposedly just a few days ago - were Yazidis or not.
They were put to death because they refused to 'participate in the practice of sexual jihad,' a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party in Mosul told Iraqi News.
Said Mimousini also claimed issues around money and the distribution of women have caused a rift within ISIS's ranks.
In October, the terror group released a pamphlet which showed how much it charged for the purchase of its female captives.
ISIS'S DESPICABLE 'PRICE LIST' FOR YAZIDI AND CHRISTIAN SLAVES
A translated version of the document (left) was shared online by humanitarian and peace prize winner Dr Widad Akrawi, and reads as follows:
We have received news that the demand in Women and Cattle market has sharply decreased and that will affect Islamic State revenues as well as the funding of mujahideen in the battlefield, therefore we have made some changes. Below are the prices for Yazidi and Christian women.
The price for Yazidi or Christian women between the age of 40 - 50 is $43 (£27)
$75 (48) for 30 to 40-year-olds
$86 (£55) for 20 to 30-year-olds
$130 (£83) for ten to 20-year-olds
$172 (£110) for one to nine-year-olds
Customers are allowed to purchase only three items with the exception of customers from Turkey, Syria and Gulf countries.
Dated and sealed by ISIS in Iraq October 16, 2014.
Its authenticity was debated until April, when the UN's special envoy for sexual violence in conflict confirmed it was genuine during a trip to Iraq.
Zainab Bangura told Bloomberg: 'The girls get peddled like barrels of petrol... One girl can be sold and bought by five or six different men.
'Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom.'
The shocking document described the women it abducted as 'items' and claimed a decrease in demand of 'women and cattle' affected 'Islamic State revenues as well as the funding of mujahideen in the battlefield'.
It then gives the prices of women and children by age, with one to nine-year-olds costing the most - around £110. The older the women, the lower the price.
Escape: ISIS stormed the Sinjar district (pictured in August) in northern Iraq last year and captured hundreds of women belonging to the Yazidi community
Exodus: The Yazidi people (pictured in Sinjar last year) practice an ancient religion which is a mixture of Islam and Christianity - and ISIS view them as heretics
The pamphlet - published on October 16 - goes on to say: 'Customers are allowed to purchase only three items with the exception of customers from Turkey, Syria and Gulf countries.
Bangura said the fighters get to choose first and then 'wealthy Middle-Easterners are allowed to
The UN envoy has previously said the best looking Yazidi virgins are sent to depraved slave auctions in Islamic State's adopted capital of Raqqa in Syria, where they are stripped naked and sold to the highest bidder.
They have a marriage bureau which organizes all of these ‘marriages’ and the sale of women... They have a price list
She said Islamic State, which controls over four million people living inside its territory in Iraq and Syria, is unlike any other terror group.
Bangura added: 'They [ISIS] have a machinery... They have a manual on how you treat these women. They have a marriage bureau which organizes all of these ‘marriages’ and the sale of women... They have a price list.'
An ISIS video released in November last year appeared to show an ISIS 'sex slave market' where fighters can choose among different Yazidi girls who are priced according to 'desirable' physical features.
Since then, several women who managed to escape their abusive captors have told of the pain and suffering they endured under ISIS rule.
Only last month, three Yazidi women who were forced to become jihadi said they were raped 'five times a day' after being traded as human cargo.
Twisted: An ISIS video released in November last year appeared to show an ISIS 'sex slave market' where excited fighters bargained over Yazidi sex slaves
The young women - Bushra, 21, Munira, 17, and Noor, 22 - were tied up, gang raped and burnt with cigarettes after being forced to marry ISIS fighters. Their names have been changed to protect their identity.
After escaping Iraq, the women were flown to the UK by international charity AMAR, which helps people rebuild their lives following conflict.
Bushra, who tried to kill herself when she was sold to an ISIS extremist, said: 'The man who had bought me took me to hospital.
He raped me about five times a day... My sister was barely 14 when they raped her... I could hear her screaming but I couldn't do anything as I was tied up
Bushra, former Yazidi sex slave
'He told me he was going to rape me that same day, however ill I made myself. He took me home, tied up my hands and feet, and raped me.
'He raped me about five times a day. My sister was barely 14 when they raped her... I could hear her screaming but I couldn't do anything as I was tied up.'
Thousands of women and girls from the Yazidi community - an ancient Kurdish ethnic group based in the north of Iraq - have had their lives shattered by ISIS fighters, Amnesty International has said.
The organisation says hundreds, and possibly thousands, have been forced to marry, 'sold' or given as 'gifts' to Islamic State fighters or their supporters - and many held as sexual slaves are girls younger than 14.
Amnesty's researcher Donatella Rovera spoke to more than 40 women who were fortunate enough to escape ISIS captivity in Iraq.
She discovered that some of these abused women and girls were so severely and irreparably traumatised that they have been driven to end their own lives.
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