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This Girl Burned Herself to Avoid Being ISIS Sex Slave

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A Yazidi girl severely burned her entire face and body to keep ISIS militants from raping her.

Eighteen-year-old Jasmin was living in a refugee camp in Iraq after ISIS terrorists drove her out of her hometown. She was so traumatized by the stories of what ISIS has done to others, that one day she thought they broke into the camp to take her away.

She thought she would soon face the same torture thousands of other young Yazidi girls like her face - sexual slavery, regular beatings, and even death. 

Jasmin decided the only way she could stop the rape was to severely disfigure herself. She doused herself with gasoline and lit a match to her skin, hoping the searing flames would make her physically undesirable to the ISIS terrorists.

Now in Germany, Jasmin is one of many other women being treated for physical and mental trauma by Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizihan.

"In the view of the Islamic State ideology, these people are not human beings," Kizilhan said in a statement. "We experienced that also in the Nazi regime in Germany, they did the same with the Jews."

Kizihan has seen unspeakable horrors, like Jasmin's case. 

"It was an evil that I had never seen in my life," he said in a statement. "I'm experienced in trauma, I had already worked with patients from Rwanda, from Bosnia, but this was very different. If you have an 8-year-old girl in front of you and she's saying she was sold eight times by IS and raped 100 times during 10 months, how can humankind be so evil?"

Jasmin and more than a thousand other women are being treated in Germany, but there are still many more left in Iraq and Syria. 

"It is very important to tell our stories because the world should know what happened to us, so that it doesn't happen again," she says. 

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