'When ISIS was killing everyone, I went to see my husband. He was just covered in blood and I saw that his head was separated from his body,' said Hayar, 33, from her tent in Khanke refugee camp, Northern Iraq.

'His head was destroyed. My daughter, Shilan, who is nine, fell down on her father's body and I could not pull her off. 

'She was shocked, she could not breathe properly for two hours. The killing, she [still] remembers,' the mother said as her child wiped another tear from her eyes. 

Shilan, sat patiently beside her grieving mother and broke down as she recounted what happened. 

The senseless and barbaric murder of her father, Qassem, happened after the family were captured together with more than 50 other Yazidis in the ISIS attacks on the Tel-Azer complex, south of Sinjar Mountain on August 3 last year.

'We drove to this field where there were many other families. ISIS arrested everybody there. They separated out the women and children and the men were put into another room,' his widow Hayar recounted.

She also revealed how that was the last time she saw her 16-year-old daughter, who was one of 24 'beautiful' girls that day, taken away to become jihadi sex slaves.

'It has been a year and almost two months, and I have heard nothing about my daughter.' she said.

Brutal murders, sexual violence, rape and gender inequality have become the unbearable reality of Yazidi life at the hands of ISIS in northern Iraq and it is indelibly imprinting horror in the young minds of a generation of children in Syria and Iraq. 

Reliving that day that changed her life forever, she recalls how, the fanatics tried to convert the Yazidis and recruit their sons to their holy war.

'After they took the girls, they told the men, you must be Muslims. Most of the men refused,' she explained, adding, 'They tried to run away.'

When they tried to escape militants began their killing spree, using swords, sniper rifles and AK47s.

'One younger ISIS man wanted to kill the kids [and me], but another ISIS man, who was responsible for the killing, said you can only kill men, you cannot kill kids,' her son, Arkad, 15, explained as he sat quietly in the corner of their tent.

During the bloody massacre, some ISIS fighters began to behead their victims.

'I saw another ISIS fighter, who was in the field, beheading [a bearded] Yazidi with a sword,' Arkad said.

Once the killing had stopped the rest of the family, who were housed in a small building next to the field, got out.

Outside, among the ten or so deformed bodies on the ground was their father. 

His head had been blow completely off after being riddled with sniper and AK47 bullets.

'I barely recognized him because he was so deformed. His head was separated from his body,' she said.

'There was so much blood, his head had been blown off by sniper rifle.'

Amid the chaos, her eldest son, Farhad, 17, who had been taken outside, but spared by ISIS, had run away towards the mountain.

As Hayar searched for her son, her remaining family stayed with their father's body.

'When I got back [to the field] I saw my [other] daughter. She was crying telling me that her [nine-year-old] sister had collapsed on her father's dead body,' she said.

She tried to drag her daughter off her husband's body. 

'She [her daughter] was grasping him and she was covered in his blood [and] my daughter had gathered his teeth that had been sprayed by the sniper fire,' she said.

Shilan, who grasps her head when her mother explains the condition she was in at the time of her father's murder, is unable to speak about the incident.

'Look she is living in trauma,' Hayar said pointing to her distract daughter, adding, 'Nobody can help us, as we are without any man.'

After the killing the jihadists left, but not before 'shelling' the remaining Yazidis.

'ISIS also shot a mortar at us when they left. But it did not explode,' she said.

Fearing ISIS would return, the family fled to Sinjar Mountain.

'We spent around 12 days on the mountain. After nine days I heard that my eldest son was alive,' Hayar recounted.

Reunited with her eldest son, the family escaped, with the help of the Kurdish forces, towards the Syrian border, before heading to the relative safety of Iraqi Kurdistan.

'My daughter brought her father's teeth to Kurdistan. [And] we buried them near the Syrian border,' she said.

Shilan, who wanted to be a lawyer before her father was killed, has now lost that ambition.

'I don't like school [now] I hate anything that is in Arabic,' she said, adding I do not 'want to be here, and I just want our girls out of captivity.'

The mother also wants to take the rest of her family outside Iraq, however, she is still clinging to the hope that she can her get her eldest daughter back.

'I don't know anything about my other daughter, [but] some people have told me she has killed herself.'

(dailymail.co.uk)