Human Rights disclosed 12,000 ISIL Crimes Victims in Iraqi Mass Graves

02 September, 2019 00:15

Human Rights disclosed 12,000 ISIL Crimes Victims in Iraqi Mass Graves

FILE -- An Iraqi army soldier searches for remains at the mass grave that was discovered at a trash dump site on the outskirts of Hammam Al-Alil after it was liberated by Iraqi forces, in Iraq, Nov. 12, 2016. More than 200 mass graves holding as many as 12,000 bodies have been found in areas of Iraq that were once controlled by the Islamic State, the United Nations said. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)

Iraq’s High Commissioner of Human Rights disclosed that over 12,000 victims of the crimes committed by the ISIL are in hundreds of mass graves inside Iraq.

“There are around 200 mass graves containing bodies of people killed by the ISIL (also known as ISIS or Daesh) terrorist group in different parts of Iraq after the terrorists occupied Western Iraq in 2014,” member of Iraq’s High Commissioner of Human Rights Ali al-Bayati told al-Qud al-Arabi on Saturday.

He noted that Iraq’s mass graves contain 12,000 ISIL Crimes Victims.

Al-Bayati said over 7,000 people had been abducted by the ISIL and half of them have not returned home yet, adding, “According to the evidence we have obtained the kidnapped children and women have been trafficked to some Persian Gulf littoral states and also some European states.”

Back in August 2014, Daesh terrorists overran the town of Sinjar, killing, raping, and enslaving large numbers of Izadi Kurds.

The region was recaptured in November 2015, during an operation by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Izadis fighters.

The Office of Kidnapped Affairs in the Northern Iraqi city of Dohuk said last year that around 3,500 Izadi Kurds were still being held captive by Daesh, adding that a large proportion of the abductees were women and children.

The Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry of Kurdistan Regional Government announced last August that Daesh’s genocide against Izadis had forced nearly 360,000 members of the minority to flee their hometowns, and another 90,000 to leave Iraq and take refuge in other countries.