Yazidi woman begs UN Security Council to wipe out Islamic State
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UNITED NATIONS - A young Yazidi woman pleaded on Wednesday for the United Nations Security Council to wipe out Islamic State after describing the torture and rape she suffered at hands of the militants, who abducted her as "war booty" and held her for three months.
"Rape was used to destroy women and girls and to guarantee that these women could never lead a normal life again," Nadia Murad Basee Taha, 21, told the 15-member council's first meeting on human trafficking.
"Islamic State has made Yazidi women into flesh to be trafficked in," she said of the extremist group that has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria.
