Better Than Sex: My Autobiography

I followed the thin man to the desk. He spoke in a soft but unkind voice. The man seemed to recognise the militant right away and began recording our information.

Nadia Murad eventually escaped her I sis captors. She was smuggled out of Iraq and in early went as a refugee to Germany.

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Later that year she began to campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking. In November , a year and three months after Isis came to [my home town] Kocho, I left Germany for Switzerland to speak to a UN forum on minority issues. It was the first time I would tell my story in front of a large audience.

I wanted to talk about everything — the children who died of dehydration fleeing Isis, the families still stranded on the mountain, the thousands of women and children who remained in captivity, and what my brothers saw at the site of the massacre. I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims. My community was scattered, living as refugees inside and outside of Iraq, and Kocho was still occupied by Isis.

There was so much the world needed to hear about what was happening to Yazidis. I wanted to tell them that so much more needed to be done. We needed to establish a safe zone for religious minorities in Iraq; to prosecute Isis — from the leaders down to the citizens who had supported their atrocities — for genocide and crimes against humanity; and to liberate all of Sinjar.

I would have to tell the audience about Hajji Salman and the times he raped me and all the abuse I witnessed. Deciding to be honest was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, and also the most important.

I shook as I read my speech. As calmly as I could, I talked about how Kocho had been taken over and girls like me had been taken as sabaya.

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I told them about how I had been raped and beaten repeatedly and how I eventually escaped. I told them about my brothers who had been killed. It never gets easier to tell your story. After proving himself with regular rides he was given a retainer to Lambourn trainer Nicky Henderson. This was to become long standing job as the main stable jockey lasting until the end of his career. He was leading jockey at the Cheltenham Festival in and This reflected a relationship with Paul Nicholls alongside his retainer who at the time was an up-and-coming trainer.

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The winner was special for all as Fitzgerald had returned from injury inspired by the horse, and as the Newbury racecourse is close to Lambourn the race is extra-special for the Lambourn racing community. During Grand National in which he was riding L'Ami he fell at the second fence sustaining spinal injuries. This was the second injury of this type he sustained in the latter part of his career. On 7 August due to his injury, aged 38, Mick was forced into retirement as any return came with the threat of paralysation.

Fitzgerald had initially planned to retire in Spring on the offer of a sporting hospitality job, but Nicky Henderson had such a successful season that Fitzgerald found it impossible to hang up his boots.

Although his Career was cut short he is still one of the most successful jump jockeys of all time riding over winners. Mick Fitzgerald is now a popular face presenting and analysing both flat and National hunt races. Initially working for At The Races , in he joined the Channel 4 Racing presenting team to give an insight into the racecraft and training of jockeys. Mick transferred to ITV along with terrestrial television coverage in Despite being unable to ride since his injury, he is still closely involved in racing.

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