I kept the four girls in an abandoned house. Each night I would have sex with a different one,” the dishevelled-looking man told the judge matter of factly. “Sometimes they seemed scared, but they never said no. They were all virgins when I got them and more beautiful than you can imagine.”
The suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) fighter standing before the Nineveh investigations court, 20 miles southeast of Mosul, seemed unrepentant as he confessed to his crimes; four counts of kidnap and rape of women belonging to the minority Yazidi sect and 10 counts of the murder of its men.
The evidence against Mohammed Ahmed filled several folders, which were stacked on top of a pile of a dozen or so others on Judge Arif’s desk.
Mr Arif continued to question 40-year-old Ahmed, who was struggling for breath and shaking. His eyes rolled and his chin lolled down to his chest. He had been made to wait outside in the blistering Iraqi sun since early morning and was evidently suffering.
“Give him some water,” the judge said to the clerk, gesturing towards the fridge in the corner of the room. The man gulped down the contents of the bottle in seconds and Mr Arif agreed to make an exception and let him sit for the remainder of the hearing.
Ahmed was then made to recount the story of how he and other Isil fighters rounded up scores of Yazidi men and boys in a primary school in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq after capturing their homeland in the summer of 2014.
“I shot them there in the school hall,” he told Mr Arif. “I think I killed 10 or 12 of them, including some children.”
He said his commander, an Isil emir, then ordered him to take the prettiest girls in the town back to Mosul. From there, they were sold into slavery and passed around senior members. Ahmed said he was presented with four, the eldest of whom was 30 and the youngest 22. “We found a lot of Isil paperwork in Mosul… They weren’t a ragtag militia, they were incredibly organised, like an army, and documented everything"Nineveh investigations court judge
“They were part of my salary, I received 60,000 dinars (£450) a month and the women as a bonus,” he said. “What did you do when you were done with them?,” the judge asked. “I gave them to another fighter in return for $200 each,” he replied.
“I was brainwashed,” he suddenly recants. “I thought the Yazidis were infidels, like Jews. That they were lower than Muslims and that what were were doing to them was ok.
“The leaders injected me with drugs, which made me act that way.
“I’m as sorry as there are numbers of hairs on my head.”
But Mr Arif was no longer interested. After 10 minutes listening to Ahmed’s testimony, he shut his file.
“He says he’s sorry and regrets what he did, but apparently not enough to hand himself in. We had to find and arrest him,” he told the court, located inside a commandeered house in the once Isil-held and now largely destroyed Christian town of Qaraqosh.
“We have a lot of evidence against him and several witnesses, it won’t be hard to convict.”
Mr Arif will now pass Ahmed’s case on to a more senior judge in an adjacent court for sentencing, where he could face life in prison or even beheading.
“drugs made me rape :((”
I’m not an expert on drugs but while some can make you violent I don’t think they can make you rape
‘I got four Yazidi virgins as part of my Isil salary and had sex with a different one every night’
Celtyradfem 