#Yazidis to accept ISIL rape survivors, but not their children | ISIS/ISIL News | Al Jazeera
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Ali Khedhir Ilyas, a Yazidi official, said on Sunday the council encourages the women to return with their children, no matter the parentage, but added that they “cannot force the families to accept” those born of rape.
Human Rights Watch has condemned the council’s Saturday decision.
“Shame on the community” tweeted Belkis Wille, the group’s senior Iraq and Qatar researcher.
“So many women taken captive by ISIS fighters who later gave birth to children from rape have told me how painful it was for them to give their children to orphanages or to the fighters’ families before they were able to return home to their community,” she wrote.