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| Amnesty Says Iraq Women with Alleged Links to IS Sexually Abused |
| 2018-04-18 |
| [AnNahar] Iraq is using collective punishment including sexual exploitation against women and kiddies with alleged ties to 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.... jihadists, In a new report, the watchdog revealed widespread discrimination by security forces, camp administrators and local authorities against women and kiddies in eight camps for people displaced by violence. "Iraqi women and kiddies with perceived ties to IS are being punished for crimes they did not commit," said Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty's Middle East research director. "They are trapped in camps, ostracised and denied food, water and other essentials. This humiliating collective punishment risks laying the foundation for future violence." The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said in February that some 2.5 million people remained displaced after Iraqi forces backed by an international coalition waged a vast offensive to oust the Lion of Islam group from parts of northern Iraq it had seized in 2014. Many of those who fled IS-held areas ended up in camps. Amnesty said that in each of the eight camps it visited, women were being pressured into sexual relationships in exchange for money, aid and protection. In its report, entitled "The Condemned: Women and Children Isolated, Trapped and Exploited in Iraq", the watchdog said women in the camps were also at risk of rape. "The very people who are supposed to be protecting them are turning into predators," said Maalouf. She called on the Iraqi government to show its commitment to protecting women by "holding all perpetrators to account and stopping all gunnies from entering" the camps for the displaced. Amnesty also called on Iraqi authorities to "immediately end the systematic and widespread practise of forcibly disappearing men and boys with perceived ties to IS that has left thousands of wives, mothers, daughters and sons in desperate situations". In many cases, the men's only "crimes" were escaping an IS stronghold, having similar names to jihadists on "wanted lists", or working in non-combat roles with the group, the watchdog said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 But hardly a word about ISIS'es sexual enslavement of Christians... Typical Am-Nasty International. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-04-18 19:19 |
| #4 Skid, I don't think that the US peacekeepers would be a big problem. The *UN* peacekeepers however ... |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2018-04-18 16:45 |
| #3 Send in THE US PEACEKEEPERS...oh. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-04-18 15:55 |
| #2 As opposed to the rape, abuse, and general enslavement that ISIS visited any women they captured. That Amnesia International was generally silent about. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2018-04-18 15:03 |
| #1 What did you expect? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-18 14:50 |