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Remains of 25 Yazidis found in Iraq mass grave
[Hurriyet Daily News] Kurdish forces have found the remains of about 25 members of the Yazidi minority killed by the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a mass grave in northwest Iraq, officials said Feb. 2. "Peshmerga forces discovered a mass grave yesterday [Sunday] containing the remains of about 25 people -- men, children and women -- from the Yazidi [sect] who were killed by" IS jihadists, local official Myaser Haji Saleh told AFP. A peshmerga lieutenant colonel said the grave was found near Sinuni during a search for explosives that IS often leaves behind, posing a threat to security forces and civilians even after they withdraw. "Our forces were searching for explosives and mines planted by [ISIL] in the area and found the grave during the search," the officer said. Some of the victims had been rubbed out and others "slaughtered" using knives, he said. ISIL spearheaded a June offensive that began in the northern province of Nineveh, where the mass grave was discovered, and overran large areas north and west of the Iraqi capital. After sweeping south towards Baghdad, the snuffies again turned their attention to the north in August, driving Kurdish forces back toward their regional capital and seizing areas including Sinuni. ISIL carried out a campaign of killings, kidnappings and enslavement against Yazidi Kurds living in the area that the UN termed an "attempt to commit genocide." Posted by: Fred 2015-02-03 |
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