Why Amal Clooney is fighting to bring justice to Yazidi sex slaves

World-renowned barrister and human rights crusader Amal Clooney has always stood up for the rights of the persecuted. That she would take up the cause of the Yazidi women, who have been enslaved sexually and subjected to systematic, repeated rape and mutilation by Islamic State terrorists, doesn't come as a surprise.

But it does come as a ready reckoner.

Wife to Hollywood icon George Clooney and a much-accomplished lawyer, this British-Lebanese beauty has been championing justice and equality for all, whether it's in Maldives for the former President Nasheed, or for the feral prophet of transparency, Julian Assange.

Clooney, however, wouldn't stop short of bringing the ISIS to trial and seeing them prosecuted fair and square at the International Criminal Court for their war crimes against Yazidi women (and not to mention the many others in occupied Iraq).

Like Rukmini Callimachi, the New York Times correspondent who brought the ISIS sexual slavery racket to international limelight, and disclosed how so-called modern methods such as birth control are used by the ISIS militants to inflict an unending cycle of rape on the abducted Yazidi women of Iraq, Clooney has decided to shed legislative light on this immeasurable torture perpetrated by the ISIS.

"It's been harrowing to hear the testimony of girls as young as 11 and 12 talk about what's happened to them. And still we haven't been able to do anything about it," she said in an interview with an American TV channel.

"They are brainwashing people and I think one of the ways to take action against that is to expose their brutality and their corruption and partly, you can do that through trials."

"This is no joke. This is ISIS."

Clooney is dead serious of course, and it would be because of her that a war of occupation, that inevitably produces a battery of women and girls gored into prostitution or unpaid sexual slavery to service the foreign privates/terrorists, will be seen through the light of gender-specific acts of violence.

Yazidi campaigners, including Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nadia Murad Basee Taha, have been pushing for global justice for the crimes committed against them by the Islamic State.

Since 2014, when the ISIS started kidnapping and keeping Yazidi women in sexual bondage, over 7,000 women have been taken captive. Some have escaped taking enormous risks to their lives and limbs, but even now, over 3,500 Yazidi girls and women remain in the ISIS sex camps, subject to endless and vicious cycle of sexual torture.

Because Yazidis practise a different faith - a blend of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam - the ISIS erroneously thinks religion permits them to rape the women.

But it seems, Clooney has a different plan in mind for the ISIS terrorists and murderers, who use women's bodies as battlefields.

Bringing them to trial would expose the barbaric face of the ISIS and dent its image as an Islamic warrior clan out to save the religion from the infidels.

The Islamic State would be exposed for exactly what it is: a fanatic, murderous, inhuman militia, just a deathly cult.

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