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May 11, 2015: A United Nations report has revealed shocking details of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL) brutality includes a “slave bazaar” in which young rape victims are stripped naked before being sold and traded like livestock.

The report said ISIL forces the mostly non-Muslim captives to marry multiple men and before each “marriage” the girls and women are forced to endure excruciating surgery to ostensibly “restore their virginity.”

“Women and girls are at risk and under assault at every point in their lives,” UN special envoy on sexual violence Zainab Bangura said.

ISIL “has institutionalized sexual violence and the brutalization of women as a central aspect of their ideology and operations, using it as a tactic of terrorism to advance their key strategic objectives,” Bangura, who interviewed several survivors in five countries affected by ISIL’s savagery, said.

ISIL jihadists routinely take Yazidi women and girls, some as young as five, from their homes and subject them to brutal rape and abuse by fighters, survivors told Bangura. The UN envoy spoke with survivors from Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.

Bangura related a story of a female captive who was made to marry more than 20 times and had surgery to “restore her virginity” at the end of each forced marriage.

Bangura also said ISIL was using the captives to coerce intelligence information and to break up the family and societal traditions in order to establish the caliphate’s dominance.

The UN envoy went on to say that the large number of children born out of rape may lead to a generation of “stateless children” who could be exploited for future acts of terror.

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