ISIS tried to convert us to Islam. We all just cried, even my father.

They brought us to a school, took all our money and possessions.

We heard they had killed four truck-loads of men from our village.

When we heard the planes flying overhead I prayed they would bomb our men. It would have been better than being killed by ISIS.

I also wished they drop bombs on us.

I'd preferred to be killed by shelling than be captured by ISIS.

I was not sold but they brought me to Raqqa in Syria and gave me to a Saudi family as a gift.

I became their slave.

I was their slave for eight months.

They took me to school to study the Quran.

I saw the beheaded and crucified bod of a YPG fighter [Syrian Kurdish militia fighting ISIS]. I was terrified.

-Dilovan

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