Former Yazidi Sex Slave Makes Tearful Return to Her Iraqi Village

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Yazidi survivor and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human trafficking Nadia Murad (C) reacts as she visits her village for the first time after being captured and sold as a slave by the Islamic State three years ago, in Kojo, Iraq June 1, 2017. Murad returned to her home in Iraq on Thursday for the first time since she was captured three years ago, tearfully pleading for international help to free other Yazidi women still captive. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

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Yazidi survivor and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human trafficking Nadia Murad (C) is surrounded by Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighters in Kojo, Iraq June 1, 2017. Nadia Murad, 24, was one of about 7,000 women and girls captured in northwest Iraq in August 2014 by the hard-line Sunni Muslim fighters who view Yazidis as devil worshippers. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

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Yazidi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighter Hussein Eisso, 21, hangs a photo of Yazidi survivor and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human trafficking Nadia Murad on his arm in Kojo, Iraq June 1, 2017. She was abducted from Kocho near Sinjar, an area home to about 400,000 Yazidis, and held by Islamic State in Mosul where she was repeatedly tortured and raped. She escaped three months later, reaching a refugee camp, then making her way to Germany. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

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Prominent Yazidi activist Nadia Murad shakes hands with Peshmerga officers queuing up to welcome her back to her village in Kocho, Sinjar, Iraq on June 1, 2017. Murad has taken to the world stage to appeal for support for the Yazidi religious minority, in the United Nations Security Council in 2015 and to all governments globally, earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador role. Thomson Reuters Foundation / Fazel Hawramy

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Yazidi survivor and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human trafficking Nadia Murad hugs her brother Saeed as she visits her village for the first time after being captured and sold as a slave by the Islamic State three years ago, in Kojo, Iraq June 1, 2017. Making her first visit home since she was kidnapped in 2014, she cried as she visited her former school in Kocho. The village was retaken from Islamic state fighters late last week. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

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Yazidi survivor and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human trafficking Nadia Murad cries as she visits her village for the first time after being captured and sold as a slave by the Islamic State three years ago, in Kojo, Iraq June 1, 2017. At the school three years ago, the militants gathered all the Kocho residents, sending children to training camps, forcing women and girls into slavery and killing the men, she recalled in tears. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

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