Farida Khalaf

Farida khalaf is from the yazidi community of the small village of kocho iraq.

Farida khalaf. She escaped to a refugee camp and in 2016 published a book about her experience the girl who beat isis. Khalaf grew up in the village of kocho in the mountains of iraq. Farida was nineteen years old and preparing for her last year in school when isis descended upon her village and she was sold into slavery. In 2014 when she was 18 isis invaded her village.

Khalaf grew up in the village of kocho in the mountains of iraq. She was held in a slave camp in the homes of isis members and finally in a desert training camp. Farida was one of them. Continually she struggled resisted and fought against her captors showing unimaginable strength and bravery.

Farida khalaf born circa 1995 is a yazidi woman who was abducted by isis in 2014 and sold into slavery. She escaped to a refugee camp and in 2016 published a book about her experience the girl who escaped isis. In 2014 when she was 18 isis invaded her village. She was enslaved by the islamist militants along with hundreds of other.

As an yazidi girl i experienced this genocide in all of its details said yazidi survivor network member farida abbas khalaf before outlining a number of specific steps that should be taken by governments and humanitarian organizations including prosecuting the perpetrators of the genocide passing the draft women survivors law. Farida khalaf born circa 1995 is the pen name of a yazidi woman who was abducted by isis in 2014 and sold into slavery. This is farida khalaf s story. Farida khalaf november 29 2019 after two years and many efforts as they promised me today the portuguese parliament thankfully voted for the decision to consider what the yazidis endured of the persecution on 3 august 2014 a genocide.

She escaped to a refugee camp and in 2016 published a book about her experience the girl who beat isis. Farida khalaf born circa 1995 is a yazidi woman who was abducted by isis in 2014 and sold into slavery. Farida khalaf 20 lost her father older brother friends and the quiet life she knew in village in northern iraq to isis. Isis murdered the men and boys in the village including farida s father and brother and took the women hostage.

In unprecedented detail farida describes her world as it was at nineteen she was living at home with her brothers and parents finishing her schooling and looking forward to becoming a math teacher and the hell it became. In this tuesday july 3 2018 photo provided by yazda a u s based yazidi rights group farida khalaf weeps as she stands inside the schoolhouse where she had been separated from her family and first imprisoned in 2014 by islamic state militants in kocho northern iraq.