...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) whose dead bodies were identified in Baghdad a year after they were uncovered.
The identified remains, which were discovered across several mass graves, numbered 57 and are scheduled to be reburied in a special ceremony later in January.
Hardan village is located on the main road from Shingal and Tal Afar into Syria in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province. It was the site of heinous Islamic State (ISIS) crimes on the Yazidi ethnoreligious community in 2014, with many residents killed.
The remains whose identities were revealed were all males aged between 18 and 80 years old, according to Rudaw’s Adla Abubakir reporting from the site of the newly-dug graves.
More than half of the 366 people from Hardan village who had been captured by ISIS were rescued and 132 remain unaccounted for, according to data obtained by Rudaw from local Shingal authorities.
ISIS seized control of large swathes of land in Iraq and Syria in 2014. The group committed genocide against Yazidis when they overran the ethnoreligious minority’s heartland of Shingal, killing around 5,000 Yazidi men, some of whom were put into mass graves. Around 7,000 women and girls, some as young as nine, were enslaved.
Exhumation of mass graves began in 2019 in Shingal. Progress halted during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...pandemic and resumed in October 2020.
The exhumations are carried out by the Iraqi government in coordination with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and are overseen by the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
Investigation Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by ISIS (UNITAD).