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SRF 2 Kultur: Sold, enslaved, abused: Yazidis as IS victims

Prize-winner 2018
European CIVIS Radio Prize – long programmes

Prize winner:	Monika Oettli
Editorial:	Brigitte Zingg
Direction:	Joe Schelbert

Report/Feature, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)

Content
IS fighters run down Yazidi and northern Iraqi villages. Islamists reject Yazidi religious communities as pagan. They kill men, abduct children and women. Boys are trained to become child soldiers, girls and women are abused as sex slaves. Also 17- year-old Schirin is enslaved and sold several times. Now she tries to overcome her trauma in Germany. Thousand of worst affected traumatised women and children are stabilised in Germany and mentally cared for.

Excerpt from the jury’s statement
The horror explains reasons for flight – exciting, very touching, impressive.

flight    fundamentalism    terrorism