Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney nee Alamuddin is officially taking terrorist group ISIS to court.
It’s been announced this morning that she will be taking on Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Prize winner and survivor of ISIS sex slavery, as a client. Murad will act as a voice for the 5000 Yidizi people who were the victims of genocide at the hands of ISIS in Northern Iraq.
Murad, who is 23-years-old, was sold as a sex slave to an ISIS commander. She endured sexual, mental and physical abuse at the hands of the group – and Clooney says she is still receiving threats to this day.
The news of Clooney taking on the case was reported on ‘The Today Show‘ in the US, with Clooney saying to host Cynthia McFadden,
“[Nadia] has said, ‘They abused me to a time until I fell unconscious’.She was burned with cigarettes, she just endured the most brutal acts known to humanity.”
Murad and Clooney also met with representatives from the United Nations, where Clooney delivered this heartbreaking line:
Clooney said she was ashamed “that girls like Nadia could have their bodies sold and used as battlefields”.“I wish I could say that I was proud to be here, but I’m not. I’m ashamed as a human being that we ignore their cries for help.”
In June, Murad gave an interview to The New York Times, where she said that she wanted to be the voice of the thousands of Yazidi victims. She also said that Clooney has been her main source of support.
Murad told the NY Times that Clooney “did not talk to me as a well-known world figure that people would love to take a photo with; she talked to me as a sister and guardian”.
“She has immense power that made me proud of being a woman.”
Clooney said on ‘The Today Show’ that she had to discuss whether to take the case with her husband, actor George Clooney, due to the immense risk involved.
“This is no joke; this is ISIS.They have sent [Nadia] really specific threats saying, ‘We will get you back, we will do everything to you’. I met her, and I just thought, ‘I can’t walk away’.[George] met Nadia, too, and I think he was moved. He understands, I mean, this is my work.”
Such a bad ass. Seriously, how does someone even become this bad ass? It’s so magnificent. But that’s not the extent of the badassery.
During this morning’s interview, McFadden said to Clooney, “ISIS needs to be bombed out of existence.”
But Amal retorted:
“It’s not enough. You can’t kill an idea that way.I think one of the ways to take action is to expose their brutality and their corruption, and partly you can do that through trials.”
Christ, the woman is so powerful.
Source: Washington Times.
Photo: Matthew Eisman / Getty.
