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December 14, 2018

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Nadia Murad Addresses Iraqi Officials
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In Iraq, Nadia Murad delivered a speech to high-level Iraqi officials,
just days after she received this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Nadia Murad: "I come to Baghdad carrying the Nobel Peace Prize to say to
all Iraqis that we are all victims of terrorism and Daesh (Islamic
State) and their blasphemous minds. So, I call upon you to act as one
confronting your enemy. I come to Baghdad to appeal to the new
government to be a national government for all Iraqis regardless of
their religion, ethnicity and language."

Nadia Murad is a 25-year-old Yazidi Kurdish human rights activist from
Iraq. She was kidnapped by the Islamic State and repeatedly raped as she
was held as a sex slave for almost three years.


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