Ameena Saeed Hasan says that she has made it her mission to rescue as many Yazidi women as she can from ISIS captivity. ISIS fighters captured Sinjar despit it not having oil reserves for them to steal. Their goal was to take the region’s people. They captured thousands of women and children after killing them men in what the United Nations has criticized as genocide.
The women were repeatedly raped and abused with hundreds of girls having committed suicide.