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Survivor Stories: Sari – The Woman Who Carried the World

When ISIS stormed Sinjar in August 2014, Sari’s husband vanished. Pregnant and clinging to her five terrified children, she was taken into captivity. Over the next three years, she endured the death of her newborn son, enslavement, and unimaginable brutality. When Sari finally escaped, she and her children spent another three years in a displacement camp – alone, exhausted, and fighting each day to survive. And when she returned home to Sinjar, there was no home left. Only ruins, silence, and darkness. Still, she rose. Sari’s story is not just one of survival. It is a testimony to the strength of Yazidi women and the unbreakable power of motherhood.

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