![]() ![]() When Murad was in Al-Hamdaniya District, she unsuccessfully attempted to escape through a window. A high-ranking militant wanted to buy Murad, but she convinced a skinnier judge instead. Yazidi women who weren't enslaved were assaulted indiscriminately. She was then taken to Mosul, which had been captured by ISIS in June 2014. ![]() Along with other women, she was transported to an institute in Solagh. In Part II, Murad recounts her and surrounding experiences during the Second Iraqi Civil War. Murad criticized Peshmerga troops for escaping Kocho a day before the massacre. Men still in Kocho refused to convert and were killed, and young women were taken as sexual slaves. Some had escaped to the Sinjar Mountains, and the rest were kidnapped by ISIS. She then describes the August 2014 occupation of Kocho by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the subsequent Kocho massacre perpetrated by ISIS. Murad outlines the fallout of several incidents and disputes related to nearby Sunni villages and terrorist attacks she remembered. Part I details Murad growing up in the Yazidi village of Kocho, Sinjar District, with her mother, two older sisters and eight older brothers. The book eventually led to the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Murad. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State is an autobiographical book by Nadia Murad in which she describes how she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State during the Second Iraqi Civil War. ![]()
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