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2024-05-22 21:53:02 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 42B50098B93DFCFC8B262789D6D4316414606C2B3D8EC35638FA2549691231E4
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While "sabaya" (سبايا) & "al sabaya" can be used to mean “captive woman” or “female prisoner of war”, they are commonly understood & used as “sex slave.” Sexually-abused civilian Yazidi women & girls taken captive by ISIS were sold in "souk sabaya" (slave markets). https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoISyria/A_HRC_32_CRP.2_en.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/world/middleeast/sabaya-isis.html https://www.kunc.org/arts-life/2021-08-07/documentary-sabaya-is-a-real-life-thriller#:~:text=Sabaya%2C%20means%20%E2%80%9Csex%20slave%E2%80%9D%20in%20Kurdish https://www.iir.cz/institutionalization-of-sexual-slavery-within-the-isis-territory#:~:text=All%20those%20women%20in%20captivity%20are%20called%20%E2%80%9Csabaya%E2%80%9D%20which%20means%20a%20slave https://x.com/zidan_yezidi/status/1686753756442923008 https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/sabaya-review-1234893481/#:~:text=the%20women%20taken%20as%20sabaya%20a%20word%20that%20can%20mean%20%E2%80%9Ccaptive%20woman%E2%80%9D%20or%20%E2%80%9Cfemale%20prisoner%20of%20war%E2%80%9D%20but%20is%20widely%20understood%20as%20%E2%80%9Csex%20slave
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