most of these yazidi refugees into iraqi kurdistan. fear not for themselves but their loved ones still captive with isis. those we spoke to asked we conceal their identities. mahmoud was not home when isis arrived in sinjar last august. the fighters took his wife three children the youngest just a month old at the time and his parents. they forced us at gunpoint into big trailer trucks she recalls. they wrote everyone s name down and asked who wants to work as a farmer cleaner, or herder. the family chose to herd goats. they were taken to a village whose residents had fled and put to work. at the start, there were a lot of tears and fear but then we got used to it she says. two men who tried to escape were beaten and dragged to death behind a car. the village was their prison.
mahmoud was not home when isis arrived in sinjar last august. the fighters took his wife three children the youngest just a month old at the time and his parents. they forced edd us at gunpoint into big trailer trucks, she recalls. they wrote everyone s name down and asked who wants to work as a farmer cleaner, or herder. the family chose to herd goats. they were taken to a village whose residents had fled and put to work. at the start, there were a lot of tears and fear but then we got used to it she says. two men who tried to escape were beaten and dragged to death behind a car. the village was their prison. for two months mahmoud did not know if his family was dead or arrive. then she found a cell phone left in the house and called him. she said, we are alive, but we