ISIS burns woman alive for refusing 'extreme sex act,' UN official says
Zainab Bangura, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Slavery, rape, forced prostitution and fiery death are among the fates that await women and girls abducted by ISIS, the United Nations's special representative on sexual violence in conflict says. "The countries I have worked on include Bosnia, Congo, South Sudan, Somalia and Central African Republic; I never saw anything like this. I cannot understand such inhumanity. I was sick," Zainab Bangura told the Middle East Eye , an independent regional news site, after investigating ISIS sex crimes in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon. "They are institutionalising sexual violence; the brutalization of women and girls is central to their ideology," she said. "They use sexual violence as a 'tactic of terrorism' to advance key strategic priorities, such as recruitment, fundraising, to enforce discipline and order — through the pu...