Luis Sanchez // Islamic State rape survivors in Iraq are like 'living corpses'

11.3.18

Islamic State rape survivors in Iraq are like 'living corpses': [alaraby.co.uk] Luis Sanchez // During a lightning charge in June 2014, IS fighters took over Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and nearly a third of the country, plunging it into the most severe crisis since the US-led invasion in 2003. Mosul was liberated last July, and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared an end to the IS self-styled caliphate.

But Patten said the impact of the conflict and IS occupation is impacting not only the women but their children.

She said provincial authorities in Mosul told her women who were raped and held as sex slaves have abandoned their children born to IS fighters. As a result, she said, the authorities have had to set up orphanages for "thousands of children."