Arab neighbors joined ISIS slaughter, escaped Yazidi says

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It is very sad when you read about the Muslims killing their neighbors. It is not enough for the savages in ISIS to kill these innocent people, but do their Muslim neighbors have to join in with the killing too?

Arab neighbors joined ISIS slaughter, escaped Yazidi says

By Ivan Watson, Sara Sidner, and Ted Rowlands CNN

Faysh Khabur, Iraq (CNN) -- In an exodus of almost biblical proportions, thousands trudge across a river to escape killers belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
Entire families carry nothing but the clothes on their backs. Some are barefoot.

Jamal Jamir, a 23-year-old university student from Sinjar, told CNN his family fled to the barren and windswept Mount Sinjar more than a week ago after ISIS captured their town. The group, which calls itself the Islamic State, has been on a rampage, killing members of various minorities, including Yazidis.

Jamir said after ISIS arrived in his town, Arab neighbors of his turned on the minorities and helped ISIS kill. "They join them, and actually they kill us."

Iraqi refugees fleeing ISISIraqi helicopter crashes on aid flightRefugees risk all to escape ISISTerrifying moments after Yazidi rescueW.H.: No decision on refugee evacuation"People you know?" CNN asked.

"Yes," he responded. "People -- our neighbors!"

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/13/world/meast/iraq-mountain-yazidi-refugees/index.ht

 

[irosie91]

do not worry-----I have no doubt that SOMEWHERE amongst the muslim kurds----some muslim
kurd will save a Yazidi child-------at least one------sit tight----they will find a single case-----
and it will all be ok. Keep in mind----the practice of CONFISCATING and enslaving orphaned
children is Islam's CONTRIBUTION to goodwill and holiness------they do it to SAVE the child
from his former lousy religion------it is an act of kindness---------SO MANY PEOPLE SIMPLY DO
NOT UNDERSTAND

 

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Islamic State Massacres Hundreds In Iraq & Syria...

Jihadis accused of new massacres in Iraq and Syria
16 August 2014 - Islamic State (IS) militants have been accused of massacring hundreds of people in areas under their control in northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

At least 80 members of the Yazidi religious minority are believed to have been killed with women and children abducted in a village in Iraq. IS is also accused of killing 700 tribesmen opposing them in Syria's Deir Ezzor province, over a two-week period. The violence has displaced an estimated 1.2 million people in Iraq alone. US aircraft are providing air support for Kurdish forces in northern Iraq to drive back the militants and retake the strategic Mosul dam. US Central Command said it carried out nine air strikes on Saturday, hitting targets near Irbil and the dam.

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The strikes "destroyed or damaged four armoured personnel carriers, seven armed vehicles, two Humvees and an armoured vehicle," a statement said. "All aircraft exited the strike areas safely." The UK, Germany and other countries are delivering humanitarian aid for refugees in the north. IS first emerged in Syria, fighting President Bashar al-Assad during the ongoing civil war there, but it has since overrun parts of northern Iraq, making its capital in the city of Mosul. Pursuing an extreme form of Sunni Islam, it has persecuted non-Muslims and Shia Muslims, whom it regards as heretics.

'Men and boys'

Kurdish and Yazidi sources say the attack on the Yazidis took place in the village of Kawju (also spelt Kocho), near the town of Sinjar, on Friday afternoon. Reports say the men were killed after refusing to convert to Islam. A US drone strike later destroyed two vehicles belonging to the militants. Men were separated from women and children under 12 years old and the men and male teenagers were led away in groups of a few dozen each and shot on the edge of the village, a wounded man who escaped by feigning death told AP news agency. The fighters then walked among the bodies, using pistols to finish off anyone who appeared to still be alive, the 42-year-old man said by phone from an area where he was hiding, on condition of anonymity. "They thought we were dead, and when they went away, we ran away," he said. "We hid in a valley until sundown, and then we fled to the mountains." A Yazidi refugee from a different village, Moujamma Jazira, told AFP news agency that people there had also been massacred, after trying in vain to fight back.

Dakhil Atto Solo said that 300 men had been executed in his village, and the women and children abducted. The report could not be verified independently. Meanwhile, UK-based Syrian opposition activists reported that IS had executed 700 members of the al-Sheitaat tribe in the oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor. "Reliable sources" reported that many of the tribesmen had been beheaded, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "Those who were executed are all al-Sheitaat," Observatory director Rami Abdelrahman told Reuters news agency by telephone. "Some were arrested, judged and killed." The news comes after reports on social media in recent days of al-Sheitaat tribesmen being decapitated by militants, their severed heads left in public view in streets. Tribesmen in the area had tried to drive out IS at the beginning of the month, in a rare display of local resistance. IS responded by rushing in reinforcements.

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