IS Forces Kill 500 Yazidis, Some of Whom Were Buried Alive

Arutz Sheva ^ | 10/8/14 | Gil Ronen

[Eleutheria5]

Terrorists from the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday.

The killings reported by Iraqi Human Rights Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to Reuters add to a long list of atrocities reportedly committed by the radical group in Iraq and neighboring Syria, where it wants to create a caliphate.

"Some of the victims, including women and children, were buried alive in scattered mass graves in and around Sinjar," he said, and added that some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves.

"We have striking evidence obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped death, and also crime scene images that show indisputably that the gangs of the Islamic States have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar," Sudani said in a telephone interview. "In some of the images we have obtained there are lines of dead Yazidis who have been shot in the head while the Islamic State fighters cheer and wave their weapons over the corpses," said Sudani. "This is a vicious atrocity."

The minister's comments could pile pressure on the United States – which has carried out air strikes on IS targets in response to the group's latest push through the north – to provide more extensive support.

Yazidis are one of many Iraqi minorities persecuted by the Islamic State, which adheres to a fundamentalist branch of Sunni Islam. The terrorists offer people living in territories they control to either convert to their faith or face death.

At least 300 Yazidi families in the villages of Koja, Hatimiya, and Qaboshi, which were surrounded by the Islamists, are being forced into converting, witnesses reported on Saturday.

The threat posed by the offensive sent an estimated 130,000...

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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There needs to be an international mechanism to suspend the rules of war when one side in a conflict engages in verified “extraordinary inhumanity on the grand scale.”

In effect, freeing nations who have signed the Geneva Conventions to carry out military field punishment of such war criminals, respecting that an entire army cannot eventually be tried for such acts.

This would include not taking prisoners or accepting surrender, the use of normally prohibited weapons in proscribed roles, etc.

In this case, since IS has no defense against them, the US could use non-persistent nerve agent, cluster munitions, fuel air munitions, and many other forbidden weapons. IS would be annihilated within days.

[Titus-Maximus]

How about some B-52’s out of Barksdale, the kind that sent the Republican Guard to hell!

[Eleutheria5]

Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. All those protests against Israel are just to keep in practice for when they do this against IS. Both of them start with an I and an S, so that proves it. Soon as they’re all practiced up with Israel, they’re going to go after IS with a vengeance.

[Eleutheria5]

Just watch and see if they don’t.

[freebird5850]

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