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Aid Agencies Warn of Iraq Refugees' Mental Health Crisis [VOANews.com]

 

Aid agencies say there is a desperate need to train more mental health professionals in Iraq to treat the survivors of Islamic State kidnappings and attacks.

In 2014, Islamic State militants entered 17-year-old Nihad Barakat's Yazidi village in northern Iraq. They killed the men and kidnapped 28 members of her family.

Speaking at a news conference in London Wednesday, Nihad described what happened next.

"The worst torture happened to us in Mosul, she says. The girls were raped, they were all taken from their families and raped constantly. And then they were handed out to the emirs [leaders] from Daesh. We were beaten and raped constantly for two weeks, and then I was chosen by one of the emirs and taken to another place," she said.

Her kidnapper was killed in fighting – and Nihad was sold to another Islamic State fighter as a sex slave. She became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy.



[For more of this story, written by Henry Ridgewell, go to http://www.voanews.com/content...-crisis/3227975.html]

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