Islamic State Responsible for 4 Million Crimes in Iraq

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About 3,000 people have gone missing since the start of the war

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04.07.2015  15:16

  

IS militants has committed the most atrocious crimes over th...

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BAGHDAD – The Islamic State (IS) insurgents committed over 4 million crimes against Iraqi civilians in the second half of 2014. Thousands of innocent people have gone missing since the jihadists took over parts of the north and west of Iraq.

Addressing a press conference in Kirkuk, Iraqi Human Rights Minister Mohammed Mahdi al-Bayati declared that the situation in the country is tragic.

“We have registered more than 4 million crimes which IS militants conducted against civilians in the last six months of 2014. 2,980 Iraqis have been missing since the IS rampage started in the country in June last year,” al-Bayati said.

He pointed out international organisations are working with Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights to register IS war crimes in the country. “The crimes consist of arming children, massacres, the destruction of temples and other religious sites, and the oppression of civilians in the areas under their control.”

The Iraqi government has already revealed that more than 3 million Iraqis have been forced to leave their homes and flee to safer areas due to the extremists’ assaults.