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Related: About this forumMass grave of ‘Yazidi women executed by ISIS’ found in Iraq
Yazidi Kurds hold posters during a protest against ISISs invasion on Sinjar city one year ago, in Dohuk, northern Iraq, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015. (AP)
Saturday, 14 November 2015
A mass grave believed to hold the remains of dozens of Yazidi women executed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group was found Saturday in northern Iraq, officials said.
The grave, which has not yet been excavated, is located on the edge of the town of Sinjar, which was captured from ISIS this week in an operation led by Kurdish security forces and backed by U.S.-led air strikes.
The area is infamous for a brutal ISIS campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape against Yazidis, a minority group whose faith the jihadists consider heretical.
The grave contains the bodies of some 78 women aged between 40 to around 80, according to younger women who had been enslaved by ISIS, witnessed the executions and later escaped, said Miyasir Hajji, a Sinjar council member.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/11/14/Mass-grave-of-Yazidi-women-executed-by-ISIS-found-in-Iraq.html
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Mass grave of ‘Yazidi women executed by ISIS’ found in Iraq (Original Post)
Jefferson23
Nov 2015
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hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)1. 78 women from 40 -80 years old ...
So they murdered all the women past child bearing age and made off with all the younger women and pubescent girls
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)2. They're a brutal force...just hideous mindset. n/t
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)3. Before they are killed they need to be
castrated in front of women the bastards