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July 17, 2019
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'They Only Let You Go When They Torture You to Death'
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"It was a kind of test. I know in the Bible it says everything is good for us believers, but I asked, in this what is good? That I am [beaten, tortured]?... They asked for my Bible. I said, 'It is in my mind.' So they said they must destroy it." --Helen Berhane, Survivor
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Do We Cry with Them?
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It started in March, five years after the massacres. U.N. and Iraqi officials stood solemnly in a circle, looking at the grass where the first mass grave in Sinjar would be exhumed. Underneath were the bodies of Yazidis -- kidnapped children, women who'd been shackled as sex slaves, executed husbands and fathers and sons.
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Tony Perkins' Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers. | Print Friendly
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