Yazidi youngster Sado Xelîl who had been abducted after the massacre of the so-called Islamic State in Kocho village of Shengal town in southern Kurdistan on August 15, 2014, has been freed by the SDF and returned to his family by the Shengal Autonomous Democratic Assembly.

Sado Xelîl told the RojNews agency about his abduction: "When ISIS came, hundreds of people fled to the mountains of Shengal. After a while, we returned to Shengal and then we were taken to a school in Kocho by the ISIS. There were children, women, men, old people, we all were held at school. Later, the ISIS killed the men, while the women and children were abducted. We were then taken to Tal Afar. There we were led into a school, where we were told to find our mothers among the women held there. However, my mother was not there."

The ISIS made great efforts to Islamize the Yazidis, said Sado Xelîl and continued: "I was with four other Yazidi children in the same place. They were lecturing us Quran and religious education and forcing us to pray. When we made a mistake, we were beaten. Later on we were sold like slaves. I was still small, but I had to do all kinds of work. When I got ill, I was beaten. I tried very much to flee from captivity. Once some people told me that they would rescue me, but when I ran away, I was caught."

Sedo Xelîl said he is very happy to have been freed from the hands of ISIS, and thanked the SDF fighters for freeing him from captivity.