Gruesome evidence of ethnic cleansing in northern Iraq as Islamic State moves to wipe out minorities | Amnesty International

6.9.14

Gruesome evidence of ethnic cleansing in northern Iraq as Islamic State moves to wipe out minorities | Amnesty International:

Fresh evidence uncovered by Amnesty International indicates that
members of the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) have
launched a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Iraq,
carrying out war crimes, including mass summary killings and abductions,
against ethnic and religious minorities.


A new briefing, Ethnic cleansing on historic scale: the Islamic State’s systematic targeting of minorities in northern Iraq,
published today presents a series of hair-raising accounts from
survivors of massacres who describe how dozens of men and boys in the
Sinjar region of northern Iraq were rounded up by Islamic State
fighters, bundled into pick-up trucks and taken to village outskirts to
be massacred in groups or shot individually. Hundreds, possibly
thousands, of women and children, along with scores of men, from the
Yezidi minority have also been abducted since the Islamic State took
control of the area.