Kocho, a town at the foot of Sinjar Mountain in Iraq, was among the Yazidi towns targeted and attacked by the Islamic State (IS)1 in August 2014.2 IS invaded Kocho, murdered the men, and then transported the younger women to a wedding hall before eventually taking them to a makeshift prison facility where they were forced to live in squalor.3 These women were bound for the slave market IS had established specifically for Yazidi women and children.
Leah Calabro