Young Yazidi activist returns to home village

(2 Jun 2017) Nadia Murad, the Yazidi human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking visited her home village of Kocho in northern Iraq on Thursday. She was herself kidnapped from Kocho in August 2014 and held as a sex slave in Mosul by Islamic State group (IS) militants. Kocho was the scene of a massacre of as many as 600 Yazidi civilians by the extremists who attempted to perpetrate the genocide of the Iraqi religious minority group when they took over much of northern Iraq three years ago. Kocho was retaken by Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces, a mainly Shiite pro-government militia, last week. Murad said that much remains to be done to help and recognise the plight of the Yazidi people, thousands of whom were murdered by IS militants. At least 3,000 women and girls are still missing, most of whom thought to be held as sex slaves. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...