Iraqi bears witness to ISIS’ brutal rule by secretly painting
After the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept into his town nearly three years ago, Mustafa al-Taee resolved to bear witness to the militants' brutal rule by secretly painting what he had seen with his own eyes. The result was a gallery of horrors: car bombs, dead children, an ISIS defector beheaded in […]After the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept into his town nearly three years ago, Mustafa al-Taee resolved to bear witness to the militants' brutal rule by secretly painting what he had seen with his own eyes.
The result was a gallery of horrors: car bombs, dead children, an ISIS defector beheaded in a public square, a former police officer strung up by his legs for hours before being shot dead.
"They committed countless crimes and those crimes needed to be documented," said the 58-year-old grandfather in his home in the northern town of Hamam al-Alil, near Mosul. "There were no journalists, no cameras."
