Inside ISIS territory: Horrors of life as a human shield
When ISIS came to Abu Israa's village, he did not flee. His mother is elderly and can barely walk, and so when the militants urged people to stay, his family chose to remain in their home. At first, ISIS's fighters promised they would keep to themselves. But soon life in the village, in Nineveh province, […]Arwa Damon and Hamdi Alkhshali report for CNN:
When ISIS came to Abu Israa's village, he did not flee.
His mother is elderly and can barely walk, and so when the militants urged people to stay, his family chose to remain in their home.
At first, ISIS's fighters promised they would keep to themselves. But soon life in the village, in Nineveh province, had become a living hell, with brutal punishments and fines meted out for minor infractions, and the constant threat of execution hanging over the population.
Abu Israa (not his real name) says the militants used him and other civilians as human shields, and would not allow them to leave.
