Islamic State atrocities reported around Mosul, says UN
Fresh evidence of atrocities and human rights abuses by Islamic State in and around Mosul have emerged, including massacres and sexual enslavement. As coalition troops converged on the Iraqi city, the UN highlighted preliminary reports of mass killings in the surrounding areas, the latest in a long line of crimes against humanity – including the […]Kareem Shaheen reports for The Guardian:
Fresh evidence of atrocities and human rights abuses by Islamic State in and around Mosul have emerged, including massacres and sexual enslavement.
As coalition troops converged on the Iraqi city, the UN highlighted preliminary reports of mass killings in the surrounding areas, the latest in a long line of crimes against humanity – including the attempted genocide of religious minorities and dissidents, and broadscale sexual enslavement – that have come to characterise Isis’s activities in Syria and Iraq.
