Information about the death of Baghdadi terrorist did not make Jamila, a former IS sex slave, feel relieved.

Jamila, a 19-year-old girl who asked to remain anonymous, was one of thousands of Yazidi women, a minority religious community in northern Iraq, kidnapped by Islamic State militants (IS) and Rape when attacking Sinjar town in August 2014.

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Yazidi women in refugee camps in Iraq Photo: AFP

Five years have passed, but Jamila has not relieved her pain, and the death of Supreme Leader ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will mean nothing to her if the gunmen who captured and tortured her are not prosecuted. .

"Even if Baghdadi is dead, that doesn't mean IS will die," Jamila said outside the tent that is now her temporary home in the Sharya refugee camp for Yazidi in Iraq.

"This is not the same as the justice that is being implemented," she said. "I want those who arrested me, who raped me to go to court. And I want to speak in court. I want to face them in court ... There are no real trials, what His death means nothing. "

Baghdadi, who has been an IS leader since 2010, committed suicide by detonating a suicide bomb belt when a US special task force was brought to an end in the morning raid on October 27. His body was later collected and dropped by an American special agent on an unspecified sea, and the house where the refuge was completely demolished.

But before facing that outcome, Baghdadi once directed his gunmen to continuously expand the control area, causing countless massacres of civilians, beheading foreign hostages and arresting thousands. Yazidi people, ethnic groups are considered "foreign". The UN has regarded ISIS attacks on Yazidi as "genocide".

Along with thousands of other women and girls, Jamila was forced into sexual slavery by the rebels when she was only 14 and imprisoned for 5 months in the city of Mosul with her sister.

The two sisters took advantage of the time when the coffee guards sent drugs to escape. However, the obsession with abused days did not spare her. "When I returned, I had a mental breakdown and had some psychological problems for 2 years, so I could not go to school anymore," Jamila said.

Now, instead of going back to work or school, she has to look after her mother in a cramped tent in the refugee camp.

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Yazidi women in Sharya refugee camp, Iraq Photo: Reuters

"My mother could not walk and had some health problems, so I had to stay and take care of her because my sister is in Germany," she said.

Returning home to Sinjar in northern Iraq is not a reasonable choice for Jamila and many others. The city is still a ruin four years after the IS massacre and the fear still lingers in the minds of the Yazidi community.

"Sinjar has been completely destroyed. Even if we can return, I don't want to, because we will be surrounded by neighboring Arab countries, which initially supported IS, and helped them." kill us, "she said.

Thousands of militants are being tried in Iraq for being linked to IS, but Iraqi authorities do not allow victims to testify in court, which community leaders and human rights groups say cannot. accelerate the healing process.

"It is deplorable that no survivor of any violent violence, including sexual slavery, will go to court to testify," said Belkis Wille, an Iraqi human rights researcher. "The Iraqi judicial system is designed to allow the state to 'collective revenge' on suspects, not accountable to the victims."

For some of the nearly 17,000 Yazidi in the Sharya refugee camp, Baghdadi's death is the first step on the path of justice, though they are still worried about IS militants alive.

Mayan Sinu, 25, can now dream of a new life after leaving Sharya camp, when she and her three children were allowed asylum in Australia. However, she also wanted those who shot her husband's leg and dragged him away to be prosecuted. Sinu's husband has been missing since the attack 5 years ago.

"I hope Baghdadi suffered more than we had to go through," Sinu said. "I wish he hadn't killed himself, so I could kill him myself."