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| UN accuses IS of executions, rape and child abuse in Iraq |
| 2014-07-19 |
| [ARABNEWS] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... accused Islamic State fighters in Iraq of executing religious and other leaders as well as teachers and health workers, forcibly recruiting children and raping women among acts that amounted to war crimes. A UN report focused on a range of violations committed against civilians, particularly by the Islamic State, though it also said Iraqi forces and allied fighters had not taken precautions to protect civilians from violence. "(This)...may also amount to war crimes," the report found. At least 5,576 Iraqi civilians have been killed this year in violence, the UN said in the most detailed account yet of the impact of months of unrest culminating in advances by gunnies led by the Al-Qaeda offshot Islamic State, formerly known as ISIL, across the north. "ISIL and associated gangs have also continued to... perpetrate targeted liquidations (community, political, and religious leaders, government employees, education professionals, health workers, etc.), sexual assault, rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls, forced recruitment of children, kidnappings, executions, robberies." The report also accused them of wanton destruction and plundering of places of worship and of cultural or historical significance. "Credible information on recruitment and use of children as soldiers was also received," the report noted. "Every day we receive accounts of a terrible litany of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations being committed in Iraq against ordinary Iraqi children, women and men, who have been deprived of their security, their livelihoods, their homes, education, health care and other basic services," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said. The report also details violations committed by government forces and affiliated groups, citing "summary executions/extrajudicial killings of prisoners and detainees," which it said may constitute a war crime. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 The dust up between the IDF and Hamas can be twisted to fit the narrative. What is happening in Iraq does not fit the narrative and must be ignored. Remember "the truth" is the enemy of the state. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-07-19 14:28 |
| #7 P2k ~ Your Sensitivity Training Cert is out of date. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-07-19 11:01 |
| #6 Especially such concepts as 'Cause-->Effect', 'Give<->Take', 'Live and let Live', and other crazy ideas. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-07-19 10:59 |
| #5 ..its a multicultural thingy. You don't want laws conceived by old white men to be imposed upon other people do you? Isn't it bad enough when they self impose a moribund political economic model from one of them? /sarc off |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-19 09:54 |
| #4 war crimes are very Islamic |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-07-19 08:36 |
| #3 At least 5,576 Iraqi civilians have been killed this year in violence 200+ Paleosimians are, a lot more important. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-19 04:38 |
| #2 ISIS is just doing what comes naturally to them. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-07-19 00:09 |
| #1 I'm sure that ISIS, based upon this accusation, will immediately abandon their corporeal ways./sarc |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-07-19 00:04 |