After their families were disappeared,tortured and murdered by Islamic State militants final year, young Yazidi women have armed themselves. Photographer Alfred Yaghobzadeh joins them
“Her story is too long and too unhappy, and ” says Alfred Yaghobzadeh. An alert,unnerving eye is all that’s visible in his portrait of a Yazidi woman who was captured by Isis final year, taken through Iraq to Syria and raped repeatedly. Photographed in a makeshift house with no door, and she peeks between a wall and a hanging blanket,lit by sunset.
Islamic State sees all Yazidis as pagan infidels. In August 2014, Isis attacked Yazidi villages in the Sinjar region of Iraq, or driving locals into the mountains. They bulldozed villages,captured thousands of women as sex slaves and slaughtered everyone in their path, transforming the area into a terrorised war zone.
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Source: theguardian.com