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Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad has called to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The woman survived a terrible ordeal, being captured by ISIS terrorists in Iraq. Nevertheless, she did not break, and decided to devote her life to the struggle for the salvation of women and girls tortured by terrorists.

In her book “The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State”, she revealed the details of her life when being captured by ISIS terrorists.

ISIS terrorists captured the village after a two-week siege. The 21-year-old Nadia was captured by them and was told than she was the ISIS property. After the first attempt to escape, she was raped and beaten for a week. Some time later, she succeeded, and now she is telling the world about the atrocities of the ISiS militants.

“Armenians understand the Yezidis well because they experienced the same pain,” Nadia Murad told reporters during her visit to Yerevan in April 2016, where she participated in the 2nd Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide.

“The terrorists are still killing Yezidi men, taking women as prisoners. About 10 thousand Yezidis were captured, killed, and some died. About 3,500 of our women are now in captivity, but so far international structures have not taken serious steps to save them,” said Nadia Murad, who moved from the Yezidi camp to Germany.

Last year, she called all countries to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

“I join the Armenian people in observing the 103rd anniversary of the Armenian genocide and call on all countries to recognise this genocide,” she tweeted in April.

Today, Iraq honors Nadia Murad as the country's first citizen to receive the Nobel Prize, however, the cost has been so high.

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