WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Sipan Khalil was abducted and sold to ISIS commanders at the age of just 15. She was forced to endure years of rape, hunger, humiliation and violence
A woman who was enslaved by ISIS has described the seven-year sexual abuse hell she endured at the hands of terror chiefs. Back in 2014, ISIS swept through the Yazidi village of Kocho, Iraq in a horrific invasion the United Nations recognised as a genocide.
Sipan Khalil was just 15 at the time she was abducted from the village and taken to Raqqa, Syria – the capital city of the Islamic State caliphate at the time. The teenager was sold into slavery by her abductors.
She was held captive by ISIS leaders for seven years and was repeatedly sold, sexually abused and forced into marriages. Sipan was subject to routine torture, rape, beatings and starvation by leaders of the terror group.
At one stage, she ended up in the residence of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, where she was forced to work as a domestic slave caring for his children.
Despite the brutal impact on her mental health, Sipan has outlined the horrors she faced to a number of media outlets. Most recently, speaking to Rudaw, she told how Baghdadi assaulted girls as young as eight years old.
She previously revealed the terror leader attempted to rape her while one of his wives held her down after he discovered her secret notebook documenting ISIS crimes.
The sexual assault was interrupted by a wave of coalition airstrikes. Sipan was locked in a basement by Baghdadi and deprived her of food and sunlight while the couple “committed many assaults” against her.
The terror monster used an electric shock baton to torture her while interrogating her abut the contents of the secret notebook.
She was then handed to ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani and brutally raped while being tied to a couch. Her life became a cycle of abuse, hunger and humiliation with evil al-Adnani even stripping her of her name.
She was forced to call herself ‘Baqiyah’ (‘She who remains’). Sipan described the months-long campaign of abuse in heart-breaking comments.
She said: “He tied my wrists to the feet of the couch, and started hitting me as he covered my mouth with his elbow. I fainted.
“I didn’t realise anything until the sun rose. I started screaming. He kept me tied to the couch and raped me again and again before and after prayers.”
In 2017, Sipan was married off to 22-year-old Lebanese ISIS fighter Abu Azam Lubnani. She described him as “an evil man, serving a state that was murdering innocent people” who would show her videos of himself shooting unarmed people lined up against a wall.
After ISIS was defeated, Lubnani tried to smuggle his “wife” to Lebanon but the journey ended early when a landmine exploded next to the vehicle. Sipan’s captors were badly injured and she took her chance at freedom.
She took hold of Lubnani’s gun and shot him and the smuggler with it. She said she didn’t feel guilty, adding: “If I hadn’t killed them, I would never be free. It was my last chance.”
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