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| Iraq: ISIS Executed At Least 500 Yazidis |
| 2014-08-11 |
| [Ynet] Islamic State ravages northern Iraq, kidnaps 300 women as slaves, kills at least 500, 'burying some alive'. Islamic State gunnies have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... minister told Rooters on Sunday. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni gunnies had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and kiddies. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added. "We have striking evidence obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped death, and also scene of the crime images that show indisputably that the gangs of the Islamic States have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar," Sudani told Rooters. Sinjar is the ancient home of the Yazidis, one of the towns captured by the Sunni gunnies who view the community as "devil worshipers". "Some of the victims, including women and kiddies were buried alive in scattered mass graves in and around Sinjar," Sudani said. The Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, has prompted tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians to flee for their lives during their push to within a 30-minute drive of the Kurdish regional capital Arbil. The Yazidis, followers of an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism, are spread over northern Iraq and are part of the country's Kurdish minority. A deadline passed at midday on Sunday for 300 Yazidi families to convert to Islam or face death at the hands of the Islamic State. It was not immediately clear whether the Iraqi minister was talking about the fate of those families or others in the conflict. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 That's how that murder-and-slavery cult spread more than a thousand years ago. There is no middle ground with the dar-al-islam, just as there wasn't with Nazi Germany and there wasn't with Bushido Japan. Either we crush them completely, or civilization dies. |
| Posted by: Si vis pacem para bellum 2014-08-11 19:18 |
| #1 Ruanda redux: except one side is unarmed :(( |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-08-11 05:19 |