Islamic State could be harvesting organs, Iraq’s U.N. envoy says
Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations asked the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to look into allegations that the Islamic State group is using organ harvesting as a way to finance its operations. Ambassador Mohamed Alhakim told reporters that in the last few weeks, bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys or other body parts have […]Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations asked the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to look into allegations that the Islamic State group is using organ harvesting as a way to finance its operations. Ambassador Mohamed Alhakim told reporters that in the last few weeks, bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys or other body parts have been found in shallow mass graves. "We have bodies. Come and examine them," he said. "It is clear they are missing certain parts."
He also said a dozen doctors have been "executed" in Mosul for refusing to participate in organ harvesting. Alhakim briefed the council on the overall situation in Iraq and accused Islamic State of "crimes of genocide" in targeting certain ethnic groups. The outgoing U.N. envoy to Iraq, Nikolay Mladenov, told the council that in January alone, 790 people were killed in acts of terrorism and armed conflict.
