article_snippet.sent: many young women who has been held as sex slaves terrifying campaign of systematic rape was tantamount to war crimes - and possibly crimes against humanity, the report adds.
article_snippet.sent: Human Rights Watch has collected the accounts of 20 women and girls who escaped from ISIS, which many young women who has been held as sex slaves say shows a system of organised rape and sexual assault, sexual slavery and forced marriage – acts that constitute war crimes.
article_snippet.sent: Rape and other forms of sexual violence committed during an armed conflict
article_snippet.sent: The human rights office published a horrifying report in March describing killings, torture, rape, sexual slavery and the use of child soldiers by the extremists.
article_snippet.sent: The human rights office suggested sexual slavery and the use of child soldiers by the extremists may be guilty of 'war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide'.
article_snippet.sent: Younger boys were forced to become child soldiers and women and girls were abducted as the 'spoils of war'.
article_snippet.sent: Head of the investigation Suki Nagra told Human Rights Watch: 'I saw in front of my eyes ISIS soldiers pulling hair, beating girls, and slamming the heads of anyone who resisted. '
article_snippet.sent: ISIS soldiers were like animals….
article_snippet.sent: Once ISIS soldiers took beating girls out, ISIS soldiers would rape beating girls and bring beating girls back to exchange for beating girls.