Yazidi girls who escaped Islamic State are trapped by trauma
Clip: 2/19/2015 | 10m 24s
Freed but not free: Yazidi girls who escaped Islamic State are trapped by trauma
Last summer, militants from the Islamic State group attacked a small ethnic group called the Yazidis, executing men and taking thousands of women and girls as slaves. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports from Northern Iraq on the rape, violence, threats and harrowing escapes that some young women endured and their continuing struggles with psychological trauma and stigma.
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Yazidi girls who escaped Islamic State are trapped by trauma
Clip: 2/19/2015 | 10m 24s
Last summer, militants from the Islamic State group attacked a small ethnic group called the Yazidis, executing men and taking thousands of women and girls as slaves. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports from Northern Iraq on the rape, violence, threats and harrowing escapes that some young women endured and their continuing struggles with psychological trauma and stigma.
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