Horrifying to say the least.

Geneva: One eight-year-old was repeatedly sold and raped, while another girl set herself on fire to make herself less attractive to her terrorist captors. These are only two of the more than 1,400 horror stories German doctor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan has heard first-hand from Yazidi women and girls once enslaved by Daesh terrorists in Iraq.

“They have been through hell,” he told AFP in an interview in Geneva.

Kizilhan heads a project that has brought 1,100 women and girls to Germany to help heal their deep physical and psychological wounds.

The project, run by German state Baden-Wurttemberg, first began flying in the traumatised victims from northern Iraq last April and brought the last group over earlier this month.

It was in 2014 that authorities in Baden-Wurttemberg decided to act.

At the time, Daesh terrorists were making a lightning advance in northern Iraq, massacring Yazidis in their villages, forcing tens of thousands to flee and kidnapping thousands of girls and women to force them into sexual slavery.

The United Nations has described the Daesh attack on the Yazidi minority as a possible genocide.