Yazidi survivor: 'I was raped every day for six months' - BBC News — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Laughter]
2. 0:03[Music]
3. 0:09for foree
4. 0:13[Music]
5. 0:21[Music]
6. 0:29[Music]
7. 0:44[Music]
8. 0:5217 yees living on this Corridor in the
9. 0:55middle of a psychiatric hospital in
10. 0:57Germany
11. 1:01it's a long way from their home in
12. 1:03Northern Iraq but at least they're safe
13. 1:10here 3 years ago on the 3rd of August
14. 1:132014 they were attacked by is Fighters
15. 1:17many of their men were shot the women
16. 1:19and children were
17. 1:22captured a class was 14 at the time she
18. 1:26and her family tried to escape up the
19. 1:28mountain Mount sja but they couldn't run
20. 1:30fast
21. 1:31[Music]
22. 1:45enough she was then kidnapped torn apart
23. 1:49from her mother and locked in a prison
24. 2:02[Music]
25. 2:04she told me she saw things which will
26. 2:06always haunt her things which I found
27. 2:09very difficult to listen to
28. 2:23[Music]
29. 2:47we're not allowed to show you where the
30. 2:49girls are living it's for their own
31. 2:50safety many of their families are still
32. 2:53in captivity but not far from here those
33. 2:5617 yazidis are integrating into German
34. 2:59societ Society many are even going to
35. 3:01school here as they start the journey to
36. 3:03rebuild their
37. 3:05lives so we focus on certain emotions
38. 3:09like love peace and joy to forget fear
39. 3:13anxiety and other negative
40. 3:16emotions and here to help them a team of
41. 3:19mentors from across the
42. 3:22world my joy is
43. 3:25[Music]
44. 3:26complete my Jo a class's nephew am me
45. 3:29was only seven when is Fighters took his
46. 3:32father and mother he hasn't seen his
47. 3:34parents for 3 years but in the last
48. 3:37month his mother has been spotted in a
49. 3:39camp in Iraq after
50. 3:43escaping during today's meditation he
51. 3:46imagines that all his people are
52. 3:48released and he sees himself reunited
53. 3:51celebrating with his
54. 3:53mother it's thought his father was
55. 3:55killed by is Fighters the same fighters
56. 3:58who kidnapped a
57. 4:00and kept her a sex slave for six
58. 4:28months
59. 4:30foreign
60. 4:34fore for
61. 4:45[Music]
62. 5:09so I'm telling them I want them to write
63. 5:11down their dreams and their goals after
64. 5:14all these girls have been through it
65. 5:16will take years of specialist counseling
66. 5:19today's art therapy session is just a
67. 5:23start
68. 5:25okay we can't show you this 13-year-old
69. 5:29girl it's for her own protection she
70. 5:32doesn't know if her parents are still
71. 5:35alive yeah she too was captured by is
72. 5:40and now only communicates by drawing and
73. 5:47signing so Jacqueline tell me the
74. 5:50difference you've seen the girls over
75. 5:52the last few years incredible it's been
76. 5:53incredible going from tears sadness no
77. 5:57eye contact and now seeing leading this
78. 5:59team is Jacqueline Isaac an American
79. 6:02lawyer who spends much of her time
80. 6:04advocating for women across the Middle
81. 6:10East she was working in Iraq taking Aid
82. 6:13to those yazidis who escaped from is by
83. 6:16fleeing to mount sja a mountain close to
84. 6:19their Villages where many were left
85. 6:21stranded for
86. 6:23months I met a mother and she was
87. 6:26telling me about how her daughter was in
88. 6:28captivity she didn't know what happened
89. 6:30to her and she was saying can't you help
90. 6:32you're a lawyer can't you help make your
91. 6:34government go out there and get our
92. 6:36girls make your government do something
93. 6:38I didn't know what to
94. 6:42do just days later in one of the
95. 6:44villages below the mountain class
96. 6:47managed to escape while her abuser was
97. 6:49out
98. 6:51fighting she was taken to a refuge Camp
99. 6:54a few days later she met Jacqueline
100. 6:57[Music]
101. 7:09this footage was filmed just days after
102. 7:12class's
103. 7:17Escape when I first met her her head was
104. 7:20down all of their heads were down there
105. 7:23was no eye contact in the
106. 7:26beginning it was a a a porch we were all
107. 7:31sitting and remember thinking what do I
108. 7:33say to them there were counselors that
109. 7:35we had brought that were sitting on the
110. 7:37right hand side on standby to give girls
111. 7:39counseling and I remember thinking this
112. 7:41is not the time for counseling yet this
113. 7:43is the time to just recognize them as
114. 7:45human beings the song she is looking for
115. 7:48is song talking about what happened to
116. 7:52her family and her people 3 months later
117. 7:55eass moved again she's just one of
118. 7:58thousands of yazid resettled by the
119. 8:00German
120. 8:03[Music]
121. 8:09government they go to mainstream school
122. 8:12with the rest of the town every
123. 8:15day but their education doesn't solely
124. 8:18take place in German
125. 8:20[Music]
126. 8:23classrooms good
127. 8:25job good job Sam I am back where they
128. 8:29live in the hospital as well as music
129. 8:32therapy they're also being taught
130. 8:33English by Jacqueline's
131. 8:35team that's Sam I
132. 8:38Am that's Sam I
133. 8:41am okay I like despite living 6,000
134. 8:45miles apart Jacqueline is dedicated to
135. 8:48these girls visiting them every few
136. 8:51months
137. 8:54butterfly but even when she isn't with
138. 8:56them she talks to them online every week
139. 8:59and and two other girls still in Iraq
140. 9:02when you look at all the recruits Isis
141. 9:05recruits that are coming from all over
142. 9:06the world how did they get into Iraq and
143. 9:08Syria it all started with the internet
144. 9:11they were being recruited online so what
145. 9:13if we can reverse what was used as
146. 9:16negative what if we can use the same
147. 9:19tool to transform the lives of this next
148. 9:22Generation in Iraq and Syria then we
149. 9:24opened up a center in Iraq where over 40
150. 9:27girls are now learning England
151. 9:30through Skype through the
152. 9:32internet by teachers who have
153. 9:34volunteered their time every day the
154. 9:38story was this is what's happened to me
155. 9:40this is what's happened to my people we
156. 9:42just want them to return that was it
157. 9:44their life was just that
158. 9:46story but now they're overcoming their
159. 9:50story of the past and creating a story
160. 9:53to Define their own future
161. 9:57[Music]
162. 10:02the class now knows her voice matters
163. 10:05just last year she addressed our
164. 10:07Parliament the result of her story The
165. 10:09House of Commons unanimously declared
166. 10:12yazidi victims of an Isis
167. 10:16genocide she now wants to become a
168. 10:18lawyer here in
169. 10:21Germany would you like to go back to
170. 10:23Iraq to live there
171. 10:44these girls are now starting to live
172. 10:46again but they're living with deep deep
173. 10:49scars
174. 10:59hi
175. 11:07[Music]