Up To 3,000 Women And Girls Kidnapped By Islamic State Jihadis In Iraq

Sunday 17 August 2014


Displaced Yazidis who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar march in a demonstration at the Iraqi-Turkish border crossing in Zakho district of the Dohuk Governorate of the Iraqi Kurdistan province



Up To 3,000 Women And Girls Kidnapped By Islamic State Jihadis In Iraq In Just A Fortnight - And Hundreds Of Men Who Refuse To Convert Have Been Shot Dead -- Daily Mail



* Innocent Yazidi children have suffered harrowing ordeals in northern Iraq

* Kidnappings 'happened in areas where residents took up arms against IS'

* Women are being held separately from the men in IS-controlled Tal Afar

* 200,000 people escaped to safety but others remain on Mount Sinjar



These are the faces of six of the thousands of innocent Yazidi children who have suffered harrowing ordeals in Iraq this month.



Up to 3,000 women and girls have been kidnapped by Islamic State jihadis in the north of the country in just a fortnight - and hundreds of men who refuse to convert have been shot dead.



The kidnappings appear to have happened in villages where residents took up arms against IS - and the women are being held separately from the men in IS-controlled Tal Afar, east of Mount Sinjar.



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My Comment: I suspect that these "horror stories" are just the tip of the iceberg.

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