Brides of #ISIS terrorists- some were just as bad as their husbands
Peter Janssen
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In July 2022, Jalda Sakarya who facilitated and assisted her husband’s physical and sexual abuse of Yazidi slaves by her husband Yunus Emre Sakarya, was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and aiding and abetting war crimes by a German court.
Yunus Emre Sakarya a Turkish-German citizen member of ISIS, took part in the Nation of Abraham in Germany, al-Qaeda organization in Germany..
He admitted that as part of Nation Ibrahim Jamaat “we planned to kill German police and raid American bases with their guns, but I got caught. The others were released. I was not affiliated with any organization at that time. Two years later, I was released.”
(He later joined) al-Nusra in Syria and ISIS in Syria. In Germany and Europe Sakarya was active in al-Qaeda-ISIS, and in 2012 he went through Turkey to Egypt and then moved on to Libya.
Sakarya took part in the attack (on 12 September 2012) against the US Ambassador Chris Stevens?in Bengasi, in Libya…
Four embassy employees as well as the ambassador were killed as a result of the attack. At that time, Sakarya, before going to Turkey and then Libya with the passport prepared for him by the al-Qaeda-Libyan government, was in charge of the military-electronic logistics for ISIS in Turkey.
Sakarya has served as a key facilitator involved in the procurement of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) components for ISIS since at least 2015.?Sakarya created in 2015 and has operated a Turkey-based company, Profesyoneller Elektronik, that serves as an ISIS front company involved in the procurement of UAV-related materials….https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-release/sm0284
#YunusSakarya and his Jihadi wife Jalda are alleged to have been involved in the wholesale rape and abuse of #Yazidi? women during the occupation of ?the Sinjar District of Syria by ISIS in 2014.
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“At the age of 19, a Yazidi woman Nadia Murad was a student living in the village of?Kocho?in?Sinjar, northern?Iraq?when Islamic State fighters rounded up the Yazidi community in the village?Kocho, killing 600 people – including her mother and six of Nadia's brothers and stepbrothers – and taking the younger women and girls into slavery. That year, Murad was one of more than 6,700 Yazidi women and girls taken prisoner by Islamic State in Iraq.[12]?She was captured on 15 August 2014.[13]?She was held as a?slave?in the city of?Mosul, where she was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and raped repeatedly. She successfully escaped…
In September 2016, Attorney?Amal Clooney (renowned Lebanese-British human rights advocate, activist and author Amal Clooney) spoke before the?United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime?(UNODC) to discuss the decision that she had made in June 2016[21]?to represent Murad as a client in legal action against ISIL commanders.
Clooney characterized the genocide, rape, and trafficking by ISIL as a "bureaucracy of evil on an industrial scale", describing it as a slave market existing online, on Facebook and in the Mideast that is still active today...
Clooney?said that while the nominations mark progress, little has actually been done to bring justice to those committing genocide.
In September 2016, Murad announced?Nadia's Initiative?at an event hosted by?Tina Brown?in New York City. The Initiative intends to provides advocacy and assistance to victims of genocide.[35]?That same month, she was named the first?Goodwill Ambassador?for the Dignity of Survivors of Human trafficking of the United Nations (UNODC)….
Murad's memoir,?The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, was published by?Crown Publishing Group?on 7 November 2017, which is an autobiographical in which she describes being captured and enslaved by the Islamic State...
in 2018, Murad was co-winner (with?Denis Mukwege, an African gynaecologist) of the?Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for the efforts of both people to end sexual violence as a weapon of war. The press release from the prize committee cited her refusal to remain 'silent and ashamed', and spoke of her courage in highlighting her own ordeal and that of other victims….
With her fellow 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Murad founded the Global Survivors Fund (GSF) ?in October 2019. The Fund works to ensure that survivors of conflict-related sexual violence globally have access to reparations and other forms of redress.
The Global Survivors Fund (GSF) builds on the advocacy efforts of the Office of the United Nations' Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG-SVC). The UN Secretary-General endorsed GSF in a statement in April 2019, and Security Council Resolution 2467 referenced GSF. The G7 also confirmed its support for GSF in its Declaration on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in August 2019…
In May 2021, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Crimes Committed by Da'esh/ISIL (UNITAD) presented landmark findings to the UN Security Council. UNITAD's Special Advisor, Karim Khan, reported to the Security Council that "there is clear and convincing evidence that the crimes against the Yazidi people clearly constituted genocide." Murad joined the proceedings to call on member states to establish international trials and support national efforts to prosecute ISIL members for their crimes of genocide and sexual violence….
In 2022, Murad, along with Nadia's Initiative, the Institute for International Criminal Investigation, and the UK government, released the Murad Code. She spoke about its benefits at the United Nations Security Council open debate on "Accountability as Prevention: Ending Cycles of Sexual Violence in Conflict Open Debate on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence."
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1 年Thanks for sharing, Peter!
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1 年“Murad, with her lawyer Amal Clooney, helped establish the Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL. Its investigators identified 30,000 ISIS fighters from dozens of countries who committed crimes against Yazidis including genocide and sexual violence, collected thousands of victim testimonies, documents and physical evidence.? But the group can only investigate, not prosecute. “What we need right now is the political will to use this evidence and to bring ISIS to justice,” Murad said . “We know that otherwise, many of the crimes committed will get brushed under the rug.”… The International Criminal Tribunal prosecuted perpetrators of rape in the Yugoslavia conflict and 1994 Rwandan genocide, and in both cases they were convicted.? “There’s definitely precedent for these ad hoc tribunals,” said Michael Bayzler, a professor of law at Chapman University“They are the? successors to Nuremberg.” In 2008, UN Resolution 1820 finally recognized rape as a “weapon of war.” To push prosecution forward, Murad and Clooney developed a set of voluntary guidelines, now called “The Murad Code,”… https://forward.com/opinion/541969/nadia-murad-a-survivor-of-sexual-genocide-seeks-justice/