Nobel Peace Prize for anti-rape activists.

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Nobel Peace Prize: the brutal testimony of Nadia Murad, who was kidnapped and raped by Islamic State.
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▼ Friday, the Nobel Academy awarded the Yazidi activist Nadia Murad Basee the Nobel Peace Prize 2018 for "the risk of her own security to fight war crimes and to correct the victims."
This is a testimony that the 2016 activist gave BBC Mundo to publish again for the award awarded to Congo doctor Denis Mukwege.
When fighters of the Islamic state Nadia Murad's town in Iraq killed all the men, including six of her brothers.
Nadia is from the Yazidi religious minority, regarded as unfaithful by the extremists of EI.
She and hundreds of other Yazidi women. They were kidnapped, sold and passed manually by men raped in groups. They were victims of what the called "sexual jihad".
"I ask the world to do something for us" was the request that Murad was made around the world to stop the abuse of the Islamic state in Syria and Iraq |
On August 3, 2014, the Islamic state attacked the attack on the island. Yazidis in Sinjar, a region in Northern Iraq, near a mountain with the same name. Previously, they attacked places like Tal Afar, Mosul and other Shiite and Christian communities and forced their residents to leave their homes.
"The life in our town was very happy, very simple. She did not live in palaces, our houses were simple, made of mud, but we had a happy life, we had no problems not. "Nadia told the BBC .
Relationships with All Our lives were very, very happy before it happened. "
That day, he ensured that 3,000 people, the elderly, were children and the disabled by the Islamic state.
Some managed to flee and retreat in Mount Sinjar, but his village was far from the mountain and I cut the exit.
"They overturned the town for a few days but did not come in. We tried to ask for help by phone and other means.
We knew something would be terrible with us. help did not come either not in Iraq or elsewhere, "he explained.
Many Yazidis took refuge in nearby Mount Sinjar, where they traveled through the Islamic state is besieged. PROPERTY SHEET
After a few days, EI hired them inside the township and there they were held, men, women and children.
"They have we gave two options: Islam or dying, ", explains Nadia.
Murders, Abduction and Rape
Then they divorced the men, about 700. They took them to the outskirts of town
They killed six of them with the other men, while the other three were injured but managed to escape.
"From the windows of the school could we see the men shoot Personally, I did not see my brothers when they were shot. So far, I could not return to town or place. There is no news of any of the 700 men, we have no idea what happened to any of them."
"They took the children over the age of four at training camps. The girls older than nine years later, about 80 women, over 45, including my mother, some said they were dead, others, but when part of Sinjar was released, is a mass grave with her found bodies.
The number of Yazidi women abused and raped by Islamic state is unknown |
There are 18 members of Nadia's family died or missing.
For her she was taken away with other women. There were about 150 girls in the group, including three of their youngest cousins.
They were divided into groups and by bus to Mosul transport.
"On our way they touched our breasts and brushed their beard on our faces. We knew if they were going to kill us or what they would do with us, but we realized that nothing would happen to us because they had already killed the men and the old women and kidnapped the children."
Upon arrival at the Kazazian General of IS in Mosul, they found many young girls, women and minors, all Yazidis. They were abducted from other villages the previous day.
She learned that the men from EI arrived every hour and selected some girls.
The next day a group of IS arrived. Each of the fighters chose one of the girls, some between 10 and 12.
"The girls had to resist but had to be forced to go with the men, the younger girls clung to the older girls, "Nadia said. to HARDtalk."
One of them was the same age as my cousins ​​and she shouted at me."
Murad became a fundamental voice in understanding the crimes committed by the Yazidi minority in Iraq
After that, Nadia was in turn by choosing a very fat man who took her away and took her to another floor. But to When another fighter had passed, he asked her to take her away.
But nothing changed.
"The thinnest took me to his place, he had bodyguards, he raped me, it was very painful," she said. "At that moment, I realized that I would have suffered the same, no matter who took me."
None of the men showed mercy. Everyone has violated violently, inhuman. "The things they did to us were terrible."
They could hold them longer than a week, but they often sold them after a day or even an hour.
Some of their brothers' wives were pregnant. They captured and carried them while they were captured.
They also took them to their Islamic court and forced them to repent.
There are several mass graves near the Sinjar mountain. demonstrate the violence of Islamic state attacks |
Nadia spent three months with the man who drove her away. At that time he was talking to some of his abductors.
I asked them why they did it for us, why did they kill our men, why did they violently rape us? They replied, "The Yazidis are unbelievers, they are a people of Scripture, you are now warfare, you deserve it, you are unbelievers, the Yazidis must be destroyed."
Not one of the men had compassion for them. Even his own women were the same. Although most men were married, they deemed families to accept what they did, she said.
Nadia asked for a minute call because she wanted to hear a familiar voice.
They told me I could call his cousin for a moment, but there was a condition:
"He first licked the tone he covered with honey."
In 2016, it was a UN Security Council session where he condemned the situation in Iraq
Many girls in the same situation committed suicide, said Nadia, but it was not an option for her.
"I think we must all accept what God has given us, without being poor or wrong, we all have to bear it."
She also did not question her faith . "God was in my mind every moment even when I was raped."
Nadia tried to escape through a window for the first time, but a guard immediately caught her in a room.
Under her rules, she said Nadia, a prisoner caught a war war when she caught her to escape. She is placed in a cell where she is raped by all the men in the complex.
Escape
Then she did not think of trying to escape again, but the last man she lived with Mosul decided to sell her, and he went to get her clothes.
When he ordered her to wash and prepare for the purchase, she had the opportunity to escape.
Many of the men of the community were killed by Islamic State
"I hit a house, a Muslim family unrelated to it, and I asked them for help. I told them that my brother will give them what they want. "
Fortunately, the family did not support EI and helped her as much as possible.
"They gave me a black abaya (veil) and an Islamic ID and took me to the border."
Now for free, Nadia Murad became an activist who drew around the world and drew attention to the tragedy of the Yazidis.
She visited the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and some Arab countries, speaking to the United Nations and meeting members of the United Nations. Parliaments and world leaders
But the reaction is slow.
"Everyone knows what the Islamic state is, they listen to me, but they promise nothing," he says. "They say they will investigate the matter and see what they can do, but nothing has happened yet."
The siege against the Yazidi minority began in August 2014 when tens of thousands of people had to flee to the Sinjar Mountains. SAFIN HAMED
After a year and a half, girls and women are still abducted.
The region is not completely liberated and in the liberated areas there are still common graves that are not excavated.
Nadia waits back to his town to see what remains and knows the final destination of all those disappearing.
"I swear to God that we are all so tired, it's a year and a half since it happened to us. The world," she said tears. "My mother is dead, I do not have a father, he has long died, my older brother was like a father to me, but he was also killed. "
to the world to be something for us to do. "
* This article was published in 2016 and was updated on the occasion of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Murad this week.

► Article originally published in: Source
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Nobel Peace Prize winner: Denis Mukwege from DR Congo.
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▼ Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege is known as "Doctor Miracle" for his ability to repair through reconstructive surgery the horrific damage inflicted on women who have been raped.
The 63-year-old Congolese gynaecologist set up the Panzi hospital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu nearly 20 years ago - shortly after he had his first experience of treating a woman who had been raped and mutilated by armed men.
Dr Mukwege recounted the horrific injury the patient had suffered in a BBC interview, saying the woman had not only been raped but bullets had been fired into her genitals and thighs.
He, along with his colleagues, have since treated tens of thousands of victims.
Panzi hospital now cares for more than 3,500 women a year. Sometimes Dr Mukwege performs as many as 10 operations a day.
'Rape capital of the world'
"I... started a hospital made from tents. I built a maternity ward with an operating theatre. In 1998, everything was destroyed again. So, I started all over again in 1999," he told the BBC in 2013.
Panzi hopsital has since grown to become a major health facility in eastern DR Congo. Its website says it has 370 doctors, nurses and support staff.
It serves a population of 400,000 and also treats patients from neighbouring countries.
Eastern DR Congo has been wracked by more than two decades of conflict, with numerous armed groups battling for control of the region's rich deposits of gold and other precious minerals.
Many different militias have been accused of carrying out the indiscriminate rape of the region's women.
"The conflict in DR Congo is not between groups of religious fanatics. Nor is it a conflict between states. This is a conflict caused by economic interests - and it is being waged by destroying Congolese women," Dr Mukwege told the BBC.
In 2010, a top UN official labelled the country "the rape capital of the world".
Women raised funds for his return
In September 2012, in a speech at the UN, Dr Mukwege criticised President Joseph Kabila's government and other countries for not doing enough to stop what he called "an unjust war that has used violence against women and rape as a strategy of war".
The following month he was targeted by gunmen who broke into his home and briefly held his daughters hostage.
According to his organisation's website,his trusted friend and security guard was killed during the attack.
He later fled with his family to Sweden, then to Belgium.
He returned home in 2013 following a campaign by local women who raised funds to pay for his return ticket.
"After that gesture, I couldn't really say no. And also, I am myself determined to help fight these atrocities, this violence."
"My life has had to change, since returning. I now live at the hospital and I take a number of security precautions, so I have lost some of my freedom," he told the BBC's Outlook programme in 2013.
Dr Mukwege currently lives under the permanent protection of UN peacekeepers at his hospital.
'I was operating when I heard the news'
He told the Nobel committee in a brief interview that he was in the operating theatre when the news of the prize came through.
"It was when I was operating and I heard people start to cry and it was so, so surprising," he said.
"I can see in the face of many women how they are happy to be recognised and this is really so touching," he added.
A picture of Dr Mukwege and the staff of Panzi hospital celebrating the Nobel win has been shared on Twitter:
Outbursts of joy in @PanziHospital.
It’s not every day one receives the @NobelPrize.
But no time to stop. @DenisMukwege's in the operating theatre.
A patient is waiting.
Our battle continues. @PanziFoundation @MdMBelgique #Panzi #DRCongo #Mukwege #NobelPeacePrize pic.twitter.com/oUjkGFVYSh— Seron Alexandre (@AlexandreSeron) October 5, 2018
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Crowds gathered at the hospital cheered and ululated to celebrate the prize which Dr Mukwege said was dedicated to the many women who were victims of sexual violence.
Although he has fallen out with DR Congo's government, its spokesman Lambert Mende congratulated Dr Mukwege.
"We have had differences with [him] every time that he tried to politicise his work, which however is important from a humanitarian standpoint. But now, we are satisfied with the Nobel Academy's recognition of the work of a compatriot," Mr Mende told AFP news agency.
Dr Mukwege was born in 1955 in Bukavu. He went to medical school across the border in Burundi and later studied gynaecology and obstetrics at the University of Angers in France.
He was inspired to become a doctor after numerous visits to see the sick with his preacher father.
He has received many other international awards, including the 2008 UN Human Rights Prize. He was named African of the Year in 2009.

► Article originally published in: Source