Angelina Jolie's new movie sheds light on Yazidi women's tragedy
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
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Jolie, who is also the Special Envoy to the UNHCR, produced three movies while visiting a Kurdish refugee camp.The third of three new short movies on the Yazidi genocide in Iraq, produced by Hollywood actress and director Angelina Jolie, was posted exclusively on the US news site The WorldPost on Tuesday.Jolie, who is also the Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, produced the documentaries for the UN agency during her visit to a Kurdish refugee camp in northern Iraq last month.The movies tell the tragic stories of Yazidi women captured by Islamic State militants in Iraq.The first two movies were published on The Guardian website on February 10."My daughter screamed ‘I will never go with you!’ "The last movie tells the story of Naseema, a 45-year-old Yazidi woman, who lost her husband, two daughters and three sons and was seized by the extremists last summer.The family was separated from each other in captivity. “As they were capturing us, my eldest daughter was screaming. She was shouting at them, ‘I will never go with you!’” Naseema remembers. "After they took her outside, they closed the door and she disappeared."Naseema endured terrible conditions during five months in captivity -- with little food or water -- and her children's health deteriorated, UNHCR told The WorldPost.Naseema was released in January before taking shelter in an abandoned building in northern Iraq.During her visit to Iraq, Jolie called for more international assistance to people displaced by the conflict in Iraq and Syria. "Nothing can prepare you for the horrific stories of these survivors of kidnap, abuse and exploitation, and to see how they cannot all get the urgent help they need and deserve," she said."Many of these innocent people have been uprooted multiple times as they seek safety amidst shifting front lines," she said. "The people I met today need to know that we will be with them."
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