Shabaks, Turkmen targeted for ISIS cleansing | World War 4 Report

13.8.14

Shabaks, Turkmen targeted for ISIS cleansing | World War 4 Report: Haneen al-Qaddo, who served as Nineveh's deputy governor before the ISIS onslaught, told Iraq's independent Azzaman agency that more than 600,000 people belonging to ethnic minorities within the governorate have been uprooted. Qaddo is a member of the Shabak ethnicty, Shi'ites who speak a Kurdish-related language. Qaddo said some 150,000 Shabaks have been displaced, as well as 200,000 Yazidis and 250,000 Turkmen. He said the numbers did not include Christians, whose major villages and towns have already been emptied. Iraqi church sources estimate that at least 100,000 Christians are displaced. "Rape, killings and pillage of Yazidis, Shabaks, Turkmen and Christians and their villages go on unabated," Qaddo said from Erbil, where he has taken refuge. (Azzaman)