Watch: 'They showed no mercy at all'

Theirs is a harrowing story of utter inhumanity. Bertrand Borg interviewed the two Yazidi women awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought last Tuesday. Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar are dressed in black from head to toe. It is attire fit for the story they are about to tell. The previous day, the two young Yazidi women received the European Union’s greatest human rights accolade. Now, they recount how they and their people have witnessed the depths of human depravity, as victims of a likely genocide. “When Daesh came, they took our men and women and enslaved us,” Ms Aji Bashar recalled, using the Arabic term for Islamic State. She was just 15 when militants attacked her village Kocho in northern Iraq in August 2014. READ: Yazidi women who escaped sexual slavery win Sakharov Prize Ms Murad was 19, and preparing for her final year of high school. Parents, siblings, uncles and aunts were killed. The two teens were taken into sexual slavery. “They showed no mercy at all. The only thing that interested them was to kill all the ‘infidels’.” Murad’s voice hardens as she furrows her brow. “That’s why they tortured us, raped us… they showed no mercy at...