Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Amnesty International: The Islamic State Is Committing Massive Ethnic Cleansing In Iraq


Iraq Crisis: Islamic State Accused Of Ethnic Cleansing -- BBC

Amnesty International says it has new evidence Islamic State militants are carrying out "a wave of ethnic cleansing" against minorities in northern Iraq.

The human rights group said IS had turned the region into "blood-soaked killing fields".

The UN earlier announced it was sending a team to Iraq to investigate "acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale".

IS and allied Sunni rebels have seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria.

Thousands of people have been killed, the majority of them civilians, and more than a million have been forced to flee their homes in recent months.

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More News On Amnesty International Accusing The Islamic State Of Committing Massive Ethnic Cleansing In Iraq

ISIS militants accused of ethnic cleansing in Iraq -- CBC/AP
Islamic State accused of 'systematic ethnic cleansing' in Iraq -- The Telegraph
Islamic State Guilty Of 'Ethnic Cleansing' -- SKY News
Amnesty International Accuses Islamic State of Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Iraq -- RIA Novosti
New Report Details The Horrific 'Ethnic Cleansing' By ISIS In Iraq -- Business Insider
Amnesty International Accuses Islamic State of War Crimes, 'Ethnic Cleansing -- Mashable
Iraq: Isis 'is Massacring Women and Children from Ethnic Minorities', Amnesty Warns -- IBTimes
Amnesty Report: ISIS Committing Ethnic Cleansing on an Historic Scale -- Daily Beast

Update: Isis Declared 'Global Threat' as UN Mulls Emergency 'War Crimes' Investigation -- IBTimes

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