Rescues from the Single Largest Kidnapping of Women This Century
“During the siege of Mount Sinjar last August, thousands of men were brutally murdered over a matter of weeks. But amid the slaughter, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) terrorists chose a different fate for the women of the town. Women from every house were taken hostage, with Isil fighters grabbing thousands of young girls and elderly grandmothers in the largest single kidnapping of women this century.” A lawyer named Khaleel al-Dakhi tells Olivia Goldhill why he isn't afraid to rescue women and children from the unimaginable horrors of the Islamic State. #OneWorld http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11723360/Islamic-State-Meet-the-man-who-helps-kidnapped-women-escape-horrors.html