It is a sadly known name in Belgium. Sammy Djedou. The man has already been sentenced several times for acts of terrorism. He would have been one of the leaders of the Daesh external operations cell. The purpose of this cell was to organize attacks in Europe. Presumed dead in an American drone attackhe continues to be talked about.
Because beyond its role in the terrorist organization for the attack commission, Sammy Djedou is also responsible for atrocities committed on the Yézidi community in Iraq. Indeed, on the basis of the testimonies collected on the spot by the evening and the Morgen, the Belgian investigators acquired the conviction that the Belgian jihadist had also reduced to slavery three young women from the Yézidie community.
To understand, you have to go back to August 3, 2014. At the time, the Islamic State (DAESH) was expanding. Daesh has just taken possession of Mosul and Faloujah, in northern Iraq. But to establish their authority over the region, the jihadists want to conquer the city of Sinjar. The city is the historical bastion of the Yézidi people, an ethnic group that has lived in Iraqi Kurdistan for decades.
Thousands of women and little girls have been reduced to servitude, to sexual slavery
The offensive is launched, tens of thousands of Yezidis flee their homes to take refuge in the mountains. Because of their religion, Daesh terrorists consider them as worshipers of the devil. They will then assassinate the elderly men and women. Children are forcibly recruited to become “lion cubs“From Daesh; children soldiers. Young girls are removed and offered as sex slaves to IS fighters.”A Daesh emir came“Explains Enya in the evening.”He took the names, dates of birth and details of the girls. He put everything in envelopes, put them in a bag. Each fighter could draw an envelope and knew the name of the girl with which he could return“.
Others are sold to become, too, the sex slaves of Daesh soldiers. This is what Khalaf says, a young Yézidie girl met by the evening. “”Thousands of women and little girls have been reduced to servitude, to sexual slavery. They were sold, exchanged. 7 -year -old girls were raped “.
The rapes are used as a weapon of war to silence the Yezidi people. From these rapes will arise from children. Children who were part of the repopulation strategy imagined by Islamic State terrorists.
Today, almost ten years later, the Yézidis still fight so that the abuses committed by Daesh are qualified as genocide and that the authors are judged for these facts. A special UN survey confirmed that there was clear evidence of a genocide. The Belgian Parliament as well as the European Parliament have recognized as genocide the atrocities suffered by the Yezidis.