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As her newborn baby died in her arms she cried out in anguish, but rather than finding sympathy, her ISIL captors beat her for disturbing their peace, a Yazidi woman says as her eyes well up with tears.

She asked where her three other children were.

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“They were laughing and said all of them have died,” she says in Kurdish to a delegation from Canada visiting Iraq. “They showed me my three children. I was crying and kissing them, and calling them,” before their bodies were taken away.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters published photos of the dead children on social media as a warning, saying this was punishment for her, deemed a sex slave, trying to escape, she says.

They were laughing and said all of them have died

She is one of the thousands of Yazidis captured when ISIL soldiers swept through Sinjar in northern Iraq in 2014, home to most of the world’s Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq.

She is now safe in Sulaymaniyah, a Kurdish area of northern Iraq.