At that time, I was dreaming too much.

Every time I closed my eyes, I would dream.

Or if there was a loud sound, I would be scared.

I thought it was ISIS.

I dreamed of those events constantly.

Amira is from the district of Sinjar in northern Iraq,

and she's one of thousands of Yazidis who were persecuted by the Islamic State from 2014 onwards because of their religious identity.

This led to a genocide with devastating consequences.

This is BBC News. I'm Sean Lay. The headlines at 11 o'clock.

The UN says tens of thousands of people in northern Iraq need life-saving help.

Many are still stranded on a range of mountains under siege from Islamic militants. What the Yazidi women and girls suffered during the genocide was truly

something of nightmares. Islamic State fighters discussed prices for thousands of captured women

sold as sex slaves.

Their villages in Sinjar were attacked.

The men and boys were taken to become soldiers,

if not killed on the spot, in front of their families.

And if they didn't escape, the women and girls were taken. They were raped and enslaved and sold on like animals between the fighters.

The people who were able to flee before being caught or later escaped or who were rescued

all ended up in internally displaced persons camps in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

These makeshift homes were supposed to be temporary, but that was in 2014, and so large

numbers of survivors have now been in these same camps for more than 10 years.

Six years ago, myself and several others providing support to these camps,

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