Thousands of corpses discovered in 72 ISIS mass graves across Syria and Iraq
By News Desk - 30/08/2016
As territory held by the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria continues to shrink, more and more evidence of the militant group’s atrocities have been uncovered with a total of 72 mass graves discovered holding thousands of dead.
The Associate Press reported that 72 mass graves had been discovered in the most extensive survey carried of its kind. The known number of the dead buried in the unmarked pits, and known only to a handful of witnesses and ISIS itself, is believed to number between 5,200 to 15,000.
The highest number of graves have been found in Iraq’s Sinjar province where ISIS carried out what has been described as a genocide against Yazidis. Sinjar Mountain itself is reportedly dotted with mass graves, six of them containing more than 100 people.
One witness to the atrocities in Sinjar, who peered through binoculars as ISIS carried out its extermination, told the AP about handcuffed men from nearby villages being shot and then buried by a waiting bulldozer.
The burials lasted for six days as the man, who has not been identified, watched the extremists fill one grave after another with his friends and relatives.
There are believed to be more mass graves in the surrounding area but they lie between ISIS and Iraqi lines. Because the no man’s land has not yet been secured, families who remain behind have been left unable to retrieve their dead.
ISIS has barely covered its tracks when it has come to the mass killings of not only Yazidis but opposing tribesmen, Shia prisoners and Syrian and Iraqi troops. In virtually every area liberated from the hands of ISIS, mass graves have been uncovered.
“They don’t even try to hide their crimes,” said Sirwan Jalal, the director of Iraqi Kurdistan’s agency in charge of mass graves was quoted as saying. “They are beheading them, shooting them, running them over in cars, all kinds of killing techniques, and they don’t even try to hide it.”
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EntrarIraqi woman shoots dead ISIS commander who held her captive as sex slave
By News Desk - 30/08/201623
An Iraqi woman gunned down the ISIS terror chief who forced her into sex slavery, it has been reported.
The woman, believed to be a member of the Yazidi-Kurdish minority, shot dead a senior Islamic State commander known as Abu Anas, according to Iraqi satellite TV network Alsumaria News.
Kurdistan Democratic Party spokesman Saeed Mamouzini said that the militant was killed on Saturday near the city of Mosul in Iraq.
He forced the woman into sex slavery and handed her to his depraved followers as a sick ‘gift’, he said.
The Yazidis are a religious minority in Syria and Iraq that are frequently terrorised by ISIS – a total of 5,270 Yazidis were abducted last year, and more than 3,000 are still in their grip, according to figures within the community.
Some ISIS fighters claim that rape is part of their twisted interpretation of Islam, according to the testimony of children they have abducted and forced into sexual slavery. A 12-year-old girl who escaped the group told the New York Times that the man who abused her explained to her that the sickening act he was about to commit was not a sin because she was not Muslim. In fact, he claimed her faith not only gave him the right to rape her – but encouraged it. After tying her up and gagging her, he knelt beside the bed and prayed. Afterwards, he prayed again.
The girl, who was interviewed in a refugee camp, said: “I kept telling him it hurts – please stop. “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God.”
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