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From IS slave to recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2018: The moving fate of Yazidi Nadia Murad and her fight for justice. On August 3, 2014, Nadia Murad's life as she knew it came to an end. IS troops attacked her Yazidi village of Kocho in northern Iraq. They killed the elders and abducted the younger ones. Young boys were to be trained as soldiers. The girls were kidnapped and sold as slaves. On that day, Nadia Murad lost 44 family members. An unprecedented martyrdom began for her: she was held captive by IS for three months, becoming a victim of humiliation, torture, and rape. Only through luck and unimaginable courage was she able to escape from her tormentors. She made it to a refugee camp and from there to Germany. Thousands of other young women are still under the control of IS today. Nadia Murad has dedicated herself to being their voice and to freeing them. Today, she fights for the recognition of IS's crimes as genocide and for those responsible to be brought before the International Criminal Court. The United Nations appointed Nadia Murad as a Goodwill Ambassador, and she was also awarded the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. In 2018, she was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. Here, she tells her moving story.