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Yazidi Women Describe ISIS Captivity | Escaping ISIS (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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53:18Now PlayingFRONTLINE presented gripping, first-hand accounts of women who escaped the brutal reign of ISIS — and followed an underground network that helped them escape. (Aired 2015)
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In August 2014, ISIS massacred hundreds of men who were part of the Yazidi religious minority and took an estimated 3,000 Yazidi women and children captive. “Escaping ISIS” delivered a stunning look at the plight of those women and children, and the efforts of people trying to help them escape.
As the documentary reported, before ISIS overran his town in Northern Iraq, Khalil al-Dakhi was a lawyer. When ISIS seized territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate, al-Dakhi formed an underground railroad to help rescue those women and children held by ISIS.
Aeida, a 21-year-old Yazidi woman who was abducted by ISIS along with her two young children, talked about being held in a home that ISIS had turned into a prison for captured women. “Some nights I can’t sleep until the early morning hours because of the nightmares,” she said.
The documentary followed al-Dakhi and his team as they undertook the dangerous work of getting women like Aeida out of ISIS’ territory. It also followed the efforts of a cell smuggling secretly-shot footage of ISIS’ treatment of women out of ISIS-held territory.
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