Report: IS group abused captive Kurdish children
Source: AP-Excite
By RYAN LUCAS
BEIRUT (AP) Islamic State militants tortured and abused Kurdish children captured earlier this year near the northern Syrian town of Kobani, beating them with hoses and electric cables, an international rights group said Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch based its conclusions on interviews with several children who were among more than 150 Kurdish boys from Kobani abducted in late May as they were returning home after taking school exams in the city of Aleppo. It said around 50 of the Kurds escaped early in their captivity, while the rest were released in batches the last coming on Oct. 29.
"Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, children have suffered the horrors of detention and torture, first by the Assad government and now by ISIS," said Human Rights Watch's Fred Abrahams. "This evidence of torture and abuse of children by ISIS underlines why no one should support their criminal enterprise."
Four of the children who were released told the New York-based rights group that they were held by the extremists in the northern Syrian town of Manbij. They described frequent abuse at the hands of the militants, who used a hose and electric cable to administer beatings.
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A Syrian Kurdish refugee child from Kobani walks between tents at a refugee camp in Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)Theirs really is such a tragic story.
840high
(17,196 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)they seem to attract a worldwide audience who believes their ideology.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)It's not what's being perpetrated in the middle east - it's the fact that self-recruitment is growing around the globe. However benign given religions might be, they have the potential to mutate into something dangerous and ugly. They also have the catalytic ability to incite OTHER religions to became dangerous and ugly.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)According to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)But realistically, it means little so long as it (and the bogus worships that foster more recruits) persists. The whole stupid thing makes the arguments about "intelligent design" look less than intelligent.
candelista
(1,986 posts)But then, Africa is not our target oil puddle.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)You just cannot, unfortunately...
Though sh!t.
candelista
(1,986 posts)Whenever we try "fixing things," it usually ends up getting a lot of people killed. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria.