Sabina Selimovic and Samra Kesinovic

Sabina Selimovic (c.1999–2014?) and Samra Kesinovic (c.1998–2015?) were Austrian teenagers who emigrated to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in April 2014.

Selimovic and Kesinovic were born in Austria to Bosnian immigrants who had fled the Bosnian War in the 1990s. Selimovic and Kesinovic, who were residents of Vienna, were believed to have been radicalized after reading about jihad on the Internet through their attendance of a Viennese mosque. The pair left their homes in Vienna in April 2014 to travel to Syria via Turkey to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[1] The pair left a note to their parents that stated "Don't look for us. We will serve Allah and we will die for him."[2] The pair later posted photographs on social media of themselves wearing full length burqas and handling assault weapons.[1] A mutual friend of Selimovic and Kesinovic told Paris Match that the pair were married to Chechen fighters, and that they were afraid of imprisonment in Austria should they have returned.[3] In December 2015, a Tunisian woman who defected from ISIS told The Sun that she and Kesinovic were kept together in a house in Syria where they served as sexual slaves for jihadis. They were allegedly required to provide sexual services to new recruits.[4]

Selimovic and Kesinovic reportedly wished to return to Austria in October 2014,[2] though it had been reported in September that Selimovic had been killed while fighting for Islamic State in Syria.[1] In late 2015 it was reported that Kesinovic was beaten to death with a hammer after trying to escape from sexual slavery in Raqqa.[5][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nick Squires (15 September 2014). "Austrian teenage girl jihadist 'killed in Syria'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Austrian girls who joined IS 'want to come home'". The Times of Israel. 11 October 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Samra a-t-elle été battue à mort par Daech?". Paris Match. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  4. 1 2 Harrison, George (December 30, 2015). "Austrian girl who joined ISIS in Syria was used as a sexual present for new fighters before being beaten to death". The Sun. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Justin Huggler (25 November 2015). "Teenage Austrian 'poster girl for the Islamic State' killed by group for trying to escape". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
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