Amal Clooney, Yazidi rape victim demand prosecution of IS

“I wish I could say that I was proud to be here, but I’m not”, the barrister said during her speech.

The woman, 23-year-old Nadia Murad, said she was raped, and prayed for death while in captivity.

“I can’t imagine anything worse being done by one human to another”, she commented, revealing Nadia was repeatedly subjected to gang rape and was burned with cigarettes. I think one of the ways to take action against that is to expose their brutality and their corruption, and partly, you can do that through trials.

Amal was very emotional about her latest battle. Murad, too understands the position she has put herself in, as she was recently named a UN Goodwill Ambassador. In a matter of days, if not hours, thousands of Yazidis were killed and thousands of women and children were taken just because they were Yazidis. “This is something I discussed with my husband”, she says, adding that George was also “moved” when he spoke to Murad and that they know the risks. “We will do everything to you, ‘” said Clooney.

She’s vowed to take on ISIS no matter how risky that may be.

She stressed that the jihadists “didn’t come to kill the women and girls, but to use us as spoils of war, as objects to be sold … or to be gifted for free. He understands, I mean, this is my work”.

In 2014, some 5,000 Yazidi men were murdered in the Sinjar Mountains in the North of Iraq, when IS fighters captured the area.

“I was used in the way that they wanted to use me. They are still captive”, said Murad. And she’s got a great sense of humour.

On Friday, Murad became a United Nations goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking. I was not alone, and perhaps I was the lucky one.

On her first attempt to flee, Murad said she was stopped by a guard who then beat her, made her take her clothes off and then put into a room with the other guards, who raped her until she fainted. “Since that date, I have been on an global campaign to raise awareness about the Yazidi genocide, the plight of Yazidi women and girls, and speaking against ISIS, a group that continue to threaten the entire world”.

Murad’s induction ceremony is set to take place this Friday at the United Nations Headquarters in NY, to mark the International Day of Peace.