Iraq: Islamic State executing ethnic cleansing in Iraq reports Amnesty International
The Islamic State armed group (ISIS) is committing crimes against humanity on a historic scale in northern Iraq. According to London-based Amnesty International, who have people on the ground there, “entire communities are at risk of being wiped off the map of Iraq”.
Amnesty International interviewed hundreds of witnesses, survivors, and victims, including the families of those who were killed or abducted, and many others displaced by the violence of the Islamic State in its new report, Ethnic cleansing on historic scale: the Islamic State’s systematic targeting of minorities in northern Iraq.
Amnesty International has found that the IS has systematically targeted non-Arab and non-Sunni Muslim communities, killing or abducting hundreds, possibly thousands, and forcing more than 830,000 others to flee the areas it has captured since 10 June 2014.