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Yo Ser La ltima: Historia de Mi Cautiverio Y Mi Lucha Contra El Estado Islmico / The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Isl
by Nadia Murad & Amal Clooney
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Esta es su historia. El 15 de agosto de 2014, la vida de Nadia Murad cambi para siempre. Las tropas del Estado Islmico irrumpieron en su pequea aldea del norte de Irak, donde la minora yazid llevaba una vida tranquila, y cometieron una masacre. Ejecutaron a hombres y mujeres, entre ellos a su madre y seis de sus hermanos, y los amontonaron en fosas comunes. A Nadia, que tena veintin aos, la secuestraron, junto a otras miles de jvenes y nias, y la vendieron como esclava sexual. Los soldados la torturaron y violaron repetidamente durante meses, hasta que una noche logr huir de milagro por las calles de Mosul. As emprendi el largo y peligroso viaje hacia la libertad. De pequea, Nadia, una nia campesina, jams hubiera imaginado que un da hablara ante las Naciones Unidas ni que estara nominada al Premio Nobel de la Paz. Nunca haba pisado Bagdad, ni siquiera haba visto un avin. Hoy la historia de Nadia insta al mundo a prestar atencin al genocidio de su pueblo. Es un llamamiento a la accin para detener los crmenes del Estado Islmico, un poderoso testimonio de la fuerza de voluntad humana. Yo ser la ltima es, asimismo, una carta de amor a un pas desaparecido, a una comunidad vulnerable y a una familia devastada por la guerra. El valor y el testimonio de una joven pueden cambiar el mundo. Para que no se olvide, porque quiere ser la ltima que tenga que vivirla, Nadia cuenta su historia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2018
Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia's brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story--as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi--has forced the world to pay attention to the ongoing genocide in Iraq. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war."
Esta es su historia. El 15 de agosto de 2014, la vida de Nadia Murad cambi para siempre. Las tropas del Estado Islmico irrumpieron en su pequea aldea del norte de Irak, donde la minora yazid llevaba una vida tranquila, y cometieron una masacre. Ejecutaron a hombres y mujeres, entre ellos a su madre y seis de sus hermanos, y los amontonaron en fosas comunes. A Nadia, que tena veintin aos, la secuestraron, junto a otras miles de jvenes y nias, y la vendieron como esclava sexual. Los soldados la torturaron y violaron repetidamente durante meses, hasta que una noche logr huir de milagro por las calles de Mosul. As emprendi el largo y peligroso viaje hacia la libertad. De pequea, Nadia, una nia campesina, jams hubiera imaginado que un da hablara ante las Naciones Unidas ni que estara nominada al Premio Nobel de la Paz. Nunca haba pisado Bagdad, ni siquiera haba visto un avin. Hoy la historia de Nadia insta al mundo a prestar atencin al genocidio de su pueblo. Es un llamamiento a la accin para detener los crmenes del Estado Islmico, un poderoso testimonio de la fuerza de voluntad humana. Yo ser la ltima es, asimismo, una carta de amor a un pas desaparecido, a una comunidad vulnerable y a una familia devastada por la guerra. El valor y el testimonio de una joven pueden cambiar el mundo. Para que no se olvide, porque quiere ser la ltima que tenga que vivirla, Nadia cuenta su historia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2018
Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia's brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story--as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi--has forced the world to pay attention to the ongoing genocide in Iraq. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war."
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