ISIL Crucifies, Buries Iraqi Children Alive – UN

A United Nations watchdog says ISIL militants have been killing Iraqi children belonging to different minorities in the country by crucifixion or burying them alive.

According to the report released on Wednesday by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, “several cases of mass executions as well as reports of be-headings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive” by ISIL have been recorded.

Committee expert Renate Winter said that Iraqi boys under the age of 18 from the Izadi sect, and the faiths of Christianity, Islam were also being used by the ISIL as bombers, bomb makers, or human shields.

 “We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding,” Winter said. “There was a video placed (online) that showed children at a very young age, approximately eight years of age and younger, to be trained already to become child soldiers.”

The UN body added that many the children had also been captured and sold as slaves in markets.

 “Children of minorities have been captured in many places… sold in the market place with tags, price tags on them, they have been sold as slaves,” Winter said.

Earlier this week, Kurdish fighters in Iraq found a mass grave containing the remains of 25 members of the Izadi community killed by ISIL terrorists.

The ISIL terror group started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed militants took control of the city of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s Arab heartland.

ISIL Takfiris kidnap 40 citizens in northern Iraq

On the other hand, members of the ISIL Takfiri militant group have abducted scores of people in Iraq’s conflict-stricken northern province of Salahuddin as the terrorists continue to commit crimes in areas under their control, says an Iraqi security source.

The Takfiri militants kidnapped 40 citizens in the city of Shirqat, located some 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, on Wednesday, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The fate and whereabouts of the abductees remain unknown, added the source, noting that a number of police officers and local authorities are among those taken hostage.

The terrorists have been carrying out horrific acts of violence, including public decapitations, against all Iraqi communities.

Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, volunteers and  tribesmen have recently succeeded in driving ISIL militants out of some areas in Iraq.

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