Two Yazidi women activists pleaded Tuesday (December 13th) for Europe to bring "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) leaders to justice for the crime of genocide, as they accepted the EU's Sakharov human rights prize.
Nadia Murad and Lamia Haji Bashar also urged Europe to consider admitting 500,000 Yazidi refugees from Iraq, when the pair received the award from the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, AFP reported.
Bashar, 18, who has deep facial scars and lost an eye due to horrific burns from a landmine during her escape from ISIL, was accompanied by her younger brother with whom she was reunited only the day before.
Murad, 23, called for establishing "zones protected by the international community" in Iraq.
The women have become figureheads for the effort to protect the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority after having survived captivity at the hands of ISIL.
