4. It’s been three years since 6,000 members of the Yazidi ethnic minority were kidnapped by the Islamic State in Iraq. Many of the women and girls were forced into sexual slavery.

Since the operation to take back Mosul began last year, about 180 Yazidi women and children have been freed. Many are exhibiting signs of deep psychological injury.

Our correspondent, who has covered the trauma faced by those women extensively, wasn’t prepared for what she saw in the last weeks at refugee camps near Mosul. Some victims are in a catatonic state that their relatives describe as “severe shock.”

“This is what they have done to our people,” said one man caring for his niece, Souhayla, above, who can barely speak.

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