• By Aditya Jha
  • Sun, 20 Oct 2024 11:19 AM (IST)
  • Source:JND

In a shocking revelation, a Yazidi woman has claimed that they were fed meat of Yazidi babies after Islamic States terrorists kidnapped her and several other Yazidis. Fawzia Amin Sido, who was rescued from captivity in Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the US Embassy, shared a previous instance of being held hostage by the ISIS.

She revealed these details to Alan Duncan, a British documentary filmmaker who has also served in the British forces. Fawzia claimed that she was nine years of age when she and her younger brothers were taken hostage by ISIS.

“They told us that they would give us food. They made rice, and they gave us meat to eat with it. The meat had a weird taste, and some of us had stomach aches afterwards,” Fawzia said, according to the Sun and the Jerusalem Post.

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“When we were done, they told us that this was the meat of Yazidi babies. They showed us pictures of beheaded babies and said, ‘These are the kids that you ate now.’ One woman suffered heart failure and died shortly after. The mothers of these babies were there also. One mother recognized her own baby because of its hands,” she added. 

Fawzia returned to her family in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq as ISIS had to free many areas of northern Iraq after coalition forces defeated them in protracted battles. However, the terrorist organisation is still active in West Asia and parts of Africa. 

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Earlier, there were several reports that suggested that the Yazidi community faced a massive suppression by ISIS in several regions of Iraq. The reports claimed that Islamic militants had trapped up to 40,000 members of Iraq’s minority communities, as reported by The Guardian. 

Yazidi religion is one of Iraq’s oldest minorities, and they were forced to flee to Mount Sinjar in the Iraqi north-west region. Many faced slaughter from the militants as they refused to leave their native places. The UN has said that roughly 40,000 people—many women and children—have taken refuge in nine locations on the mountain, “a craggy, mile-high ridge identified in local legend as the final resting place of Noah’s ark.”.