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Friday, August 15, 2014
Women and Teens Suffer 'Barbaric Rape' by Islamic State Fighters
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The United Kingdom agreed to send helicopters to Iraq to “aid surveillance of the zone where the refugees are trapped,” The Independent reports.
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Iraqi civilians are being subjected to “barbaric”
sexual violence committed by Sunni Islamic State (IS) jihadist
fighters, the U.N reports.
Two U.N. officials say they’ve received accounts of
“barbaric acts” of sexual violence including “savage rapes” being used
as weapons of war against women and teenage girls and boys belonging to
the Yazidi, Christian, Turkomen and Shabak minority groups in Iraq. As
many as 1,500 Yazidis and Christians may have been forced into sex
slavery and human trafficking, the UN reports.
“We condemn, in the strongest terms, the explicit targeting
of women and children and the barbaric acts the ‘Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant’ has perpetrated on minorities in areas under its
control, and we remind all armed groups that acts of sexual violence are
grave human rights violations that can be considered as war crimes and
crimes against humanity,” Nickolay Mladenov, special representative of
the U.N. secretary-general for Iraq, and Zainab Hawa Bangura, special
representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, said in a joint statement issued from Baghdad.
The UN warned on Tuesday that Yazidis are on the brink of an imminent mass genocide
at the hands of IS. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates
20,000 to 30,000 Yazidis remain trapped in searing temperatures on top
of Mount Sinjar in northwest Iraq with little food, water or medical
supplies. The Yazidis — a majority Kurdish-speaking religion
that combines elements of Christianity, Islam and the ancient Persian
faith Zoroastrianism — were trapped after fleeing IS militants who
issued them an ultimatum: convert to Islam or die.
The U.S. and France are both stepping up efforts to relieve
the plight of Iraq’s Yazidis, who IS consider to be devil worshippers,
and other religious minority groups. The U.S. is sending 130 “advisers”
into northern Iraq to help assist in the evacuation of the thousands of
Yazidis still stranded on the mountain. The Defense Department
emphasized that the advisers, all Marines and Special Operations forces,
won’t be used in combat roles but will plan and perhaps carry out the
evacuation of Yazidis. The addition of 130 advisers brings the total
number of U.S. military personnel in Iraq to more than 1,000, The New York Times reports.
The U.S. has also been airdropping food, water and medical
supplies over the past six days to Yazidis who remain trapped on Mount
Sinjar. However, the airdrops are not seen as a sustainable solution
to the crisis, said Ben Rhodes, U.S. deputy national security adviser.
Instead, the creation of a safe corridor or airlifts for fleeing
minorities are being considered. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said
he is “assessing” the best way to get the Yazidis off the mountain, The New York Times reports.
French President François Hollande said on Wednesday that
France will supply arms to the Kurdish peshmerga forces to repel Islamic
State (IS) militants and prevent them from advancing on Erbil, the
capital of the Kurdish semi-autonomous region. The U.S., which has
already carried out airstrikes targeting IS fighters, will also directly arm the Kurdish peshmerga forces.
“In order to respond to the urgent needs expressed by the
Kurdistan regional authorities, the president has decided, in agreement
with Baghdad, to deliver arms in the next few hours,” Hollande said in a
statement from his office.
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