Shocking: 19 Yazidi girls burnt alive by ISIS for refusing to be sex slaves

News site ARA news reported that ISIS terrorists executed 19 Yazidi girls who refused to be sex slaves by burning them inside iron cages. The victims were burnt in the centre of Mosul on Thursday in front of a large crowd, ARA news reported.  "They were punished for refusing to have sex with IS militants," media activist Abdullah al-Malla was quoted as telling ARA News.

"The 19 girls were burned to death while hundreds of people were watching. Nobody could do anything to save them from the brutal punishment," a witness said. The ISIS jihadists took over 3,000 Yazidi girls as sex slaves after they overran Sinjar in northwest Iraq in August 2014, causing a mass displacement of nearly 400,000 people to Duhok and Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.

According to Kurdistan regional government officials, over 1,800 abducted Yazidi women and girls in Iraq and Syria are held by ISIS. ISIS captured Mosul in 2014.