A 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner has spoken with France 24 about how she wanted to be a makeup artist in her small village in northern Iraq before her life was almost destroyed by the Islamic State group. In 2014, when Nadia Murad was only 21 years old, the group’s terrorists attacked their community, killing hundreds of people, including their mother and six of her nine brothers. Together with almost another 7,000 Yazidi women and children, she was kidnapped and, like many of them, was raped, beaten and tortured for several months. Now, she thought, she is a powerful voice for all survivors of genocide and sexual violence. His story is documented in his book “The Last Girl: My story of captivity and my fight against the Islamic State”. She spoke to us in perspective.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad: 'I never wanted to be an activist'
