0:00:13 > 0:00:13Welcome to HARDtalk.
0:00:13 > 0:00:14I'm Sarah Montague.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17When militants from so-called Islamic State entered Nadia's
0:00:17 > 0:00:18village, they killed all the men.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20Six of her brothers were murdered.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23She and hundreds of other Yazidi women were taken captive and,
0:00:23 > 0:00:26in the months that followed, they were passed from one group
0:00:26 > 0:00:34of men to another and gang raped.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37She managed to escape, but it is thought that thousands
0:00:37 > 0:00:44of women are still being held captive.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48Nadia Murad is here in London campaigning to try to get the world
0:00:48 > 0:00:53to notice and do something.
0:00:53 > 0:00:54Nadia Murad, welcome to HARDtalk.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Thank you.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Before Islamic State militants came to your village 18 months ago,
0:00:59 > 0:01:04can you give us a sense of what your life was like?
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Can you tell us what happened when the Islamic State militants
0:01:42 > 0:01:43came to your village?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08So, you have a large family.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09How many of your brothers did they take?
0:04:32 > 0:04:33How did you know?
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Were you aware of what was happening?
0:05:07 > 0:05:08OK.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10So 700 men disappeared, basically.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13They killed your mother as well, I think.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Can you tell us what happened when they took you and the other women?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Where did they take you?
0:06:05 > 0:06:06What did they do to you?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52And then when you got to Mosul, what happened to you then?
0:07:39 > 0:07:41And then what happened?
0:08:50 > 0:08:54So, you went with the man that you thought might be easier for you,
0:08:54 > 0:08:57a smaller man, than the big man.
0:08:57 > 0:08:58And what did he do?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16You say your nieces were also there.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18How young were some of the girls there?
0:10:36 > 0:10:37You were held for three months.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40In that time, did you have conversations or any normal
0:10:40 > 0:10:45conversations with these people who were holding you?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Did any of the Islamic State men or women show you any compassion?
0:12:54 > 0:12:59You said that they told you to convert to Islam.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Did you think about that?
0:13:18 > 0:13:19What?
0:13:19 > 0:13:22They would force you to pray, to behave like a Muslim,
0:13:22 > 0:13:24rather than a Yazidi?
0:13:28 > 0:13:31How did you manage to escape?
0:15:21 > 0:15:26And that allowed you to escape and get out?
0:15:26 > 0:15:29There are many women who have been held who killed themselves
0:15:29 > 0:15:36out of desperation.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40Was it something that at the time you thought?
0:16:33 > 0:16:35But I wonder that you didn't question your faith,
0:16:35 > 0:16:37you didn't wonder given what happened to you whether there
0:16:38 > 0:16:41was a God.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36And we should explain that the Yazidi faith,
0:17:36 > 0:17:43there are only a few thousand people left in the world who practise.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17And when you think about the men who raped you in the time
0:18:17 > 0:18:21you were being held, what do you want to happen to them?
0:18:27 > 0:18:30You would like to see them prosecuted in an international
0:18:30 > 0:18:31court?
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Do you also want to see soldiers, ground troops, going in from Western
0:18:35 > 0:18:39countries to take on Islamic State?
0:20:10 > 0:20:12There are young people all over the world who are attracted
0:20:12 > 0:20:15by what so-called Islamic State are doing and want to go
0:20:16 > 0:20:16fight for them.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20What do you say to them?
0:21:26 > 0:21:29You have been all over the world with your campaign to get the world
0:21:29 > 0:21:31to notice what is going on.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33You have spoken at the United Nations.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35What difference is it making?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Do you have any hope they will do something,
0:22:39 > 0:22:42they will be able to stop Isis?
0:22:42 > 0:22:51Nadia Murad, thank you for coming on HARDtalk.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08Hello.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Tuesday brought something of a mishmash of weather
0:24:10 > 0:24:16to the British Isles.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20We had an old front in the east producing quite a bit of cloud.