Amnesty International has evidence IS militants are ‘ethnic cleansing’

Amnesty International is accusing IS militants of ethnic cleaning against minorities in northern Iraq.

16:30 02 September 2014

Human rights group Amnesty International says that it has new evidence to prove that Islamic State militants are carrying out “a wave of ethnic cleansing” against minority in northern Iraq and has turned the region into “blood soaked killing fields.”

The group’s report that was released on Tuesday said that they’ve gathered proof of several mass killings in the northern region of Sinjar in August.

Two of the deadliest attacks took place on August 03 and August 15 when IS fighters raided villages and killed hundreds of people.
 
"Groups of men and boys including children as young as 12 from both villages were seized by IS militants, taken away and shot," the UK-based group said.

"IS is carrying out despicable crimes and has transformed rural areas of Sinjar into blood-soaked killing fields in its brutal campaign to obliterate all trace of non-Arabs and non-Sunni Muslims."

On Monday, the United Nations Human Rights Council agreed to deploy an emergency mission to probe crime allegedly carried out by the IS.

Deputy Human Rights Commissioner Flavia Pansieri warned that IS (formerly known as ISIS) was targeting Christian, Yazidi, Turkmen, Shabak, Kaka'i, Sabean and Shia communities "through particularly brutal persecution".