6 years on, memories of ISIS prison cell haunt Ezidi woman
DUHOK, Iraq (AA) – Six years ago, an Ezidi woman escaped from an ISIS prison cell. She still takes pills to fall asleep.
Sara Revo, 70, lost her son eight years ago in a ISIS terrorist attack on the Sinjar district of Iraq. Now, she lives with her grandchildren in the Sharya Refugee Camp in Iraq’s Duhok province.
In the Aug. 3, 2014, attack on the Sinjar district, where Ezidis live, ISIS kidnapped and killed thousands of people, including women and children, or held them in prison cells.
Revo’s son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren were also captured and the terrorists took them to Tal Afar.
“After one-and-half years, I escaped from captivity and realized that my son and three others were killed near Tal Afar. I recognized them by their clothes,” she said.
She said her grandchildren and daughter-in-law also escaped.
“After my daughter-in-law came out of prison, she left us and went to Europe. These three children were left without a mother and father.” the grieving woman said.
Some 300,000 people lived in Sinjar before the attacks, two-thirds of them Ezidi and the rest Sunni Kurds and Arabs.
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