A riveting, behind-the-scenes look of the Yazidi genocide and the
terrorist threat it holds for the West, based on the investigation by
Father Patrick Desbois, Costel Nastasie, and their team at Yahad-In
Unum, as first shown on 60 Minutes.
With testimony drawn from more than 200 interviews with Yazidi
survivors―girls, women, boys, and men―recorded during 11 investigative
trips to refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan.
"If you read only one book on this subject, it should be this one."―Lara
Logan, 60 Minutes
The massacre of the Yazidi people by ISIS was nothing less than
genocide. In refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, the authors brought a
skilled team to interview more than a hundred ISIS survivors and
document what they experienced and saw. These former slaves observed
their torturers and know from the inside the secret facilities that ISIS
has kept hidden from the world. What their testimony reveals is an
organization whose ambition is power, regardless of their claim to be
"soldiers of God." Their fighters are paid with sex, money, and the
power of life and death over captives. Their promised paradise is here
and now, not after death.
Men who didn't swear allegiance were executed. Women became slaves for
sex or reproduction, and their offspring may still serve the cause. In
mobile training camps, the captured children were drugged,
indoctrinated, and taught to shoot Kalashnikovs, plant explosives, and
handle suicide vests. They are the intended products of the terrorist
factory. In this taut, disturbing account, the authors document a
utilitarian genocide that still holds an implicit threat to other
counties, including those in the West.
