Geneva, Oct 28 : The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group has kidnapped nearly 8,000 families from outlying areas of Iraq’s Mosul city, and is using them as human shields in an attempt to deter the Iraqi army from attacking their positions, the UN said on Friday.
Given that the average Iraqi family has six members, a total of over 47,300 civilians have been abducted and forced by the jihadis to move to Mosul, Efe news reported.
This is a cowardly strategy to make certain areas immune from military operations, said UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, adding that those who refuse to obey the IS orders are executed on the spot.
The abductees came from four different areas on the outskirts of Mosul, where more than a million civilians reside in an area that has been subjected to a large military offensive by Iraqi forces for the last 12 days.
The UN also revealed that the IS group executed 242 persons in Mosul last Wednesday, 90 per cent of whom were former members of the Iraqi security forces, while the rest were civilians who refused to join the terrorists.—IANS
UNITED STATES WAS VERY CLEVER AFTER VIETNAM WAR,THEY KILLED IRAQIS WITH LEAST BLOOD OF THEIR OWN TROOPS.THEY LEFT IRAQIS TO FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES SAND DIE.
SHIAS CAN NOT BE AT PEACE WITHOUT SUNNIS.
IT IS SAID THERE WERE LEAST SHIAS BEFORE 1500 AD AND ON PARTICULAR KING FORCIBLY CHANAGED MUSLIMS INTO SHIAS.
AND BRITAIN EMPLOYES INDIANS AND GURKHAS AND SIKHS AS THEIR ARMY.WHY DO THE INDIAN DO THE SAME EMPLOY BRITISH IN THEIR ARMY.
BUT LIKE FAMOUS SONG, EVERY ONE HAS TO DIE ONE DAY ,THIS SONGS SUITS WELL FOR WESTERN COUNTRIES.
There’s an old story
the way the Apaches tell it;
A man was riding in the desert
and came across a vulture
the kind they call turkey buzzards
in Arizona, sittin’ on a rock.
“Hey,” the man says, “how come you
old turkey buzzard’s sittin’ here?
I saw you flying over Hadleyberg,
and I didn’t want to meet up with you…
so I turned around and come this way.”
Old turkey buzzard says:
“That’s funny,
I was only passing through that town.
I was really coming over here
to wait for you.”
Ol Turkey Buzzard, Ol Turkey Buzzard
Flyin, Flyin high,
He’s just waiting
Buzzard just a-waiting
Waiting for something down below the dive
Old Buzzard knows that he can wait
Cause every mother’s son has got a date,
A date with Fate.. With fate
He sees men come, he sees men go,
Crawling like ants on the rocks below
The men will steal, the men will dream
And die for gold onthe rocks below
Gold, Gold, Gold, they just gotta have that gold
Gold, Gold, Gold, they’ll do anything for gold