Jailed ISIS militant who admitted raping 200 women says mass rapes were 'normal'

A captured Islamic State militant who admitted raping more than 200 women has shown little remorse for what he has done and claimed that it was "normal."

Amar Hussein, who was one of the ISIS militants captured during an assault on the city of Kirkuk last October, claimed that his emirs, or local ISIS commanders, gave him and the other soldiers permission to rape as many Yazidi women and women from other minorities as they wanted.

"Young men need this. This is normal." Hussein told Reuters in an interview. He narrated that he raped women from the Yazidi sect and other minorities as he moved from house to house in several Iraqi cities at the time when ISIS was capturing territories from Iraqi security forces.

Hussein said that he had killed about 500 people since he joined the terror group in 2013. When he was being trained by the emirs, he said that it was difficult for him to kill at first, but it became easier as time went by.

"Seven, eight, ten at a time. Thirty or 40 people. We would take them in desert and kill them," he recounted.

The 21-year-old jihadi said that he became an Islamic militant when he was just 14. He joined al Qaeda after he was drawn to jihad by a local mosque preacher. He is now awaiting legal proceedings as a member of ISIS.

While Hussein's claims of raping women cannot be verified, several human rights groups have documented widespread abuses committed by ISIS fighters against Yazidis.

One victim who was able to escape from the terror group has come out to give an account of the abuse she experienced while she was in captivity.

Nadia Murad recounted that she was taken into captivity in 2014 when her village was invaded by the terror group. She said that the terror group has enslaved as many as 6,500 women.

"We didn't feel valued as humans in their hands. They enslaved more than 6,500 females they took them to different places," she recounted.

"They separated any woman over nine years old and were enslaving them they forced us to change our religion and they did everything they wanted to us," she went on to say.

She said that she was raped by 12 men and saw other young girls being traded as sex slaves. Her two sisters were also enslaved, but their mother was executed because she was considered "too old."

Murad was able to escape from her captors after three months. She has since fled to Germany, and she has been traveling the globe to raise awareness about the plight of Yazidi women captured by ISIS.