Bøger af Nadia Murad

Modtageren af Nobels Fredspris 2018, Nadia Murad, fortæller i sin intense biografi om at blive holdt fanget som sexslave hos IS, om flugten – og om at bruge sine oplevelser til at blive et talerør for verdens flygtninge og undertrykte.Nadia Murad voksede op i den lille landsby Kocho i det nordlige Irak, hvor størstedelen af verdens cirka 700.000 yazidier bor. Et religiøst mindretal, der af IS betragtes som vantro.Indtil august 2014 lignede hendes liv de fleste andre 21-åriges, men det endte brat, da Islamisk Stat erobrede Kocho og indledte det, som FN siden har kaldt et folkedrab mod yazidierne i Irak. IS dræbte et stort antal af landsbyens yazidier – deriblandt seks af Nadias brødre og hendes mor.Selv blev Nadia taget til fange og transporteret til Mosul, hvor hun sammen med tusinder af andre yazidi-kvinder blev tvunget til at være sexslave for IS. Nadia blev gentagne gange voldtaget og tortureret, før det efter flere ugers fangenskab lykkedes hende at flygte. Nadia Murad er siden blevet et talerør for verdens flygtninge, mod menneskehandlen og sexslaveri og har sat IS’ brutalitet over for yazidierne på dagsordenen. En kamp, der har indbragt hende Nobels Fredspris – og en plads på talerstolen i FN. Den sidste pige er hendes personlige beretning om en krig og en brutalitet, der ændrede hendes liv og rev hendes familie fra hinanden. Den er et kærlighedsbrev til et krigsramt land – og et vidnesbyrd om, at det gode i mennesket vil overleve på trods.Bogens forord er skrevet af Amal Clooney, der er menneskerettighedsadvokat og er gået med Nadia Murad ind i kampen mod IS.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZEIn this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia's brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's storyas a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidihas forced the world to pay attention to an ongoing genocide. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war.

`Telling my story of first, surviving genocide and then, as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know.' The remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a twenty-three-year-old Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to challenge the world to fight ISIS on behalf on her people.