A/HRC/28/18 34. Survivors of the Badush prison massacre of 10 June 2014 consistently reported that some Sunni detainees were asked whether they were ISF or Awakening Council representatives. Reportedly, those Sunni prisoners listed as defending their cellmates or defined as “apostates” were reportedly made to line up with Shia and other prisoners, and were then summarily executed. 3. Sexual and gender-based violence 35. The mission gathered corroborated witness statements indicating clear patterns of sexual and gender-based violence against Yezidi women. When attacking Yezidi villages, ISIL reportedly engaged in the systematic and widespread killing of men, including boys over the age of 14. Women and children were subjected to different violations. Accounts indicate that ISIL views captured women and children as spoils of war which it owns. Numerous interviews conducted with Yezidi women and girls who fled ISIL captivity between November 2014 and January 2015 provided reliable information on killings, widespread and systematic enslavement, including selling of women, rape, and sexual slavery, the forced transfer of women and children, and inhuman and degrading treatment. Many of the women interviewed were able to identify the origins of their ISIL captors, who were from a wide range of countries. 36. Following the systematic separation of men, women and young children, Yezidi women were further divided into three groups: married women with children, married women without children, and unmarried women and young girls. Each of those groups was transferred to different locations in ISIL-controlled territory. Some victims were transferred to more than 10 different locations during a four-month period. These repeated displacements were apparently intended to reinforce ISIL control over the victims by instilling in them feelings of fear, insecurity and disorientation. 37. Girls and unmarried women who escaped from ISIL captivity consistently recounted the process by which they were raped and sexually enslaved. ISIL members numbered them or recorded their names on lists, and inspected them to evaluate their beauty. While some were given as “gifts”, others were sold to local or foreign ISIL fighters. Some victims were privy to price negotiations between “vendors” and “buyers.” An “emir”9 would instruct ISIL fighters to inspect and choose girls for “marriage”. Girls would then be prepared for “marriage” (rape), involving, in some cases, full body searches. Mission investigators met with victims as young as 11 years of age.10 A 30-year-old woman described how young girls were prepared for sale at a house in Mosul. They were ordered to stand and remove their headscarves to be inspected. Then they were forced to smile while ISIL fighters took photographs. 38. A victim witnessed similar cruel and inhuman treatment following her transfer to Adnaani, a 15-minute drive from Baaj, Ninewa governorate. She recounted that an “emir” wrote the names of 14 girls on small pieces of paper and called two ISIL fighters, who each picked one piece of paper. The “emir” asked the ISIL fighters to call out the name written on the paper. The 15- and 18-year-old girls whose names were called were forcibly taken by the two fighters into another room. The “emir” and a so-called “imam” who was in the room laughed when they heard the two girls screaming. After around 20 minutes, the two girls were brought back into the room. The witness said both girls were in shock and had blood on their trousers. Both confirmed to the witness that they had been “married” (raped). 9 10 “Emirs”, local ISIL commanders, report to “sheikhs” in the ISIL chain of command. The pattern described by numerous witnesses is corroborated by an ISIL pamphlet on female slaves released in October/November 2014, entitled, “Questions and answers on taking captives and slaves”. It outlines ISIL regulations on the treatment of non-Muslim “slaves”, including young girls. 9