A Dutch woman who joined Islamic State in 2015 is on trial in the Netherlands for crimes against humanity for allegedly enslaving two Yazidi women in Syria. Hasna Aarab, 33, is accused of taking part in the enslavement of the women, whom she held captive as domestic slaves, between 2015-16 when she lived in Raqqa with her young son and her IS fighter husband. The Netherlands is the second country to put an alleged Islamic State member on trial for crimes against the Yazidis, a minority whose religion includes Zoroastrian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Manichaean elements. Islamic State had controlled large areas of Iraq and Syria between 2014-17. The “caliphate” he had established collapsed in 2019. He considered the Yazidis “satanic” and killed more than 3,000 people. Nearly 7,000 women and girls were enslaved while 550,000 people were displaced from their homes in northern Iraq. Germany has condemned […]
Source: News Beast
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