As Daesh continues their atrocities, killing, pillaging people, their homes, facilities, natural resources such as oil in Iraq and usurping Iraqi land, there exists brave men who face the odds of not returning when they sacrifice themselves to save young Yezidi girls.
They did not shrink from their responsibility when they received calls for help from their friends desperate to have their kidnapped daughters rescued from Daesh.
These are the accounts of two such heroes.
A government service employee in Tall Afer sacrificed his life to save Yezidi girls from a Daesh kidnapping in 2014.
Kasim Muhammed Hussein, an Iraqi Muslim, had been executed by Daesh terrorists for saving a Yezidi girl from the terror group.
In 2014, one his Yezidi friends, named Felaki, called Hussein and requested him to save his daughter, kidnapped by Daesh.
After seven months of searching, Hussein found the girl in a slave bazar and bought her for 7,500 dollars.
A short time after he brought the girl back to her family, a group of terrorists captured him and executed him for helping the Yezidis.
Another Muslim from Mosul had saved one Yezidi family's seven daughters from Daesh and now lives as a fugitive.
He is an engineer and fled the city after rescuing the girls, because he is on the Daesh execution list.
The Muslim hero from Mosul spoke with Yeni Şafak on the condition of anonymity because of his brothers living in Mosul.
He said, “Before the Daesh attack in 2014, I had succeeded fleeing Mosul with my wife and seven daughters. One day, one of my Yezidi friends called me and said that his seven daughters were kidnapped by Daesh. He asked my help to save the daughters. Then I took my seven daughters' ID cards, went to Mosul and rescued the Yezidi girls by showing my daughters' IDs."
Following the seize of Mosul in 2014, Daesh had reportedly kidnapped more than 3,000 Yezidi women and girls.
Only a thousand of them have been rescued so far.
