Iraq Crisis : Updates on ISIS Genocide of minority Yezidis

[manlion]

Yazidi village near Sinjar faces mass killings | BAS NEWS

A Yazidi village 20 km south of Sinjar the Yazidi- majority town in Northern Iraq has come under the attack from the extremist group Islamic State (IS) Militants.

According to BasNews sources from Sinjar, in the village of Kojo, a Yazidi majority village between Sinjar and Ba’ech in Northern Iraq, IS militants has committed mass murder.

BasNews, has learned that on Friday morning, IS insurgents has attacked the village and has killed most of the man of the village and then they have taken all the women with them.

Since the IS Militants captured Sinjar earlier this month, the Jihadi group has reportedly has committed a number of mass killings against Yazidi people and raping hundred of Yazidi women.

According to UN estimation since Sinjar were taken by IS Militants, about 200,000 people has fled the town and surrounding areas frighten at the prospect of being arrested by the extremist group.

Hundred thousands of those Yazidi refugees fled to Sinjar Mountain and were stranded on the Mountain for about two weeks without any foods and water and tens of children and women died as a result of dehydration and starvation on the mountain.

Its been in the last couple of days, that Kurdish forces along with support from US military and NGO’s aids has reached some of the stranded refugees and some of them had already been rescued and they have moved in to Kurdistan region where they are based in makeshift camps

 

[SrNair]

What happened to US airstrikes?

 

[manlion]

What happened to US airstrikes?

Sinjar is under ISIS control, US not willing to take any military action against ISIS in Sinjar as it has to work with PKK, whom US sees as a terrorist group

Situtaion in Mt Sinjar 14/8.2014

 

[manlion]

Islamic State fighters take Yazidi town; killings and abductions reported - The Washington Post

DAHUK, Iraq — Extremist fighters swarmed into a besieged Yazidi village Friday and killed or captured dozens of residents, according to Yazidis and Kurdish commanders, offering a reminder that the ancient minority sect is still in danger despite President Obama’s conclusion that the risk had passed for a group stranded on Mount Sinjar.
Islamic State militants surged into Kocho, on the nearby Sinjar Plain, after a week-long siege in which the al-Qaeda-inspired group demanded that residents convert to Islam or face death, said the reports, which could not be independently verified.

The men were rounded up and executed, while the women were taken to an undisclosed location, said Ziad Sinjar, a commander of the Kurdish pesh merga militia based on the edge of Mount Sinjar, citing the accounts of villagers nearby. He put the number of dead at 42 and said 80 women and children had been transported out of the village.

Yazidi activists said at least 80 men were killed and hundreds of women were taken away.

The accounts could not be independently confirmed nor the conflicting numbers reconciled, but fears had been growing for the welfare of Yazidis trapped in the village since the Islamic State siege began last Thursday.


The U.S. Central Command said Friday that it had carried out a drone attack south of the town of Sinjar after receiving reports of an attack in the area. The drone “struck and destroyed two vehicles,” it said.

The alleged killings came a day after Obama called off plans for a military evacuation of Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar, saying they were no longer at risk. If confirmed, the events in Kocho would constitute the worst single atrocity committed against the Yazidis since the Aug. 3 assault on Sinjar triggered a humanitarian crisis and contributed to the Obama administration’s decision to intervene

 

[manlion]

Kojo execution

DUHOK, Kurdistan Region—Militants of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) raided the Yezidi village of Kucho, killing 80 men and taking a number of women and children hostage after a deadline to convert to Islam expired on Friday, villagers said.

According to Rudaw sources, the IS gave the residents of Kucho a deadline to convert to Islam or face consequences. The deadline expired today.

Kucho is located 80 kilometers southeast of Shingal where thousands of Yezidis fled and took refuge on a nearby mountain as the town fell to the IS earlier this month.

Local Yezidi sources said that a large force of IS militants arriving on buses attacked the village, rounded up 1,200 people and hauled them into the school village.

The spokesman for the Yezidi Spiritual Community, Karim Suleiman confirmed the the massacre by the IS, saying, “One of the men in the village escaped the IS injured.”

Scores of Yezidi villagers were killed during the initial IS attack on their region earlier this month and hundreds more, mostly women and young girls are still missing.

The women are believed to have been held in Mosul, Iraq’s IS stronghold.

The United Nations, US, EU and human rights organizations have strongly condemned the violent IS attacks on the Yezidi religious minority.

 

[Aepsilons]

Thank you @manlion for updating this thread. Please keep up the good work in elucidating all of us of the current events there.

 

[manlion]

US conducts new airstrikes as ISIS kills dozens of Yazidis in Iraq town, officials say | Fox News

The U.S. military conducted new airstrikes against Islamic militants Friday as sources tell Fox News members of the group killed at least 90 male members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a northern village and kidnapped "dozens" of women and children.

A senior U.S. defense official told Fox News that U.S. surveillance drones saw evidence of the massacre of dozens of Yazidi men. The U.S. military later struck two militant targets, killing some of those involved in the killings, the source said.

The U.S. military said in a statement Friday that the U.S. forces conducted the airstrikes on Islamic State vehicles in the village of Kawju. The village is located south of the village of Sinjar.

The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking ethnic and religious group which numbers in the hundreds of thousands in Iraq, has been persecuted in the north by Islamic State militants, with at least 500 killed prior to Friday's news, according to Iraq's human rights minister.

Sources told Fox News it appears residents in the village did not comply with the militants' demands to convert to Islam.

"[Militants] arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon,'' senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. "We believe it's because of their creed: convert or be killed."

A Yazidi lawmaker and another senior Kurdish official also said the killings had taken place and that the women of the village were kidnapped.

The latest killings came just a day after President Obama said U.S.-led airstrikes had broken the siege by the militants against the minorities trapped on a mountain in northern Iraq. Obama made it clear the U.S. mission in the region is not over yet.

Iraqi and Yazidi leaders say the brutal Islamic State fighters have buried Yazidi men alive, killed children and kidnapped women to be slaves.

"We have striking evidence obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped death, and also crime scene images that show indisputably that the gangs of the Islamic States have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar," Sudani told Reuters Sunday.

Sinjar is the ancient home of the Yazidis, but also one of several towns captured by the Sunni militants who view the community as "devil worshipers" and demand conversion to Islam under threat of death.

The Islamic State, which has declared a Sharia state caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, forced tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians to flee their homes or face certain death.

The Yazidis, followers of an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism, are spread over northern Iraq and are part of the country's Kurdish minority.

 

[Alienoz_TR]

Peshmerga should starting behaving as men. Crying, requesting for back-up shows how much trust can be put onto them. 10 years of military readiness collapsed in front of some 1 year old Al Qaida offshoot.

Kurds gambled, sided with US in 2003, then stood neutral when IS attacked Shias in June. They took Kirkuk, but lost Yazidi majority areas. Either gamble, or exchange, whatever you call it.

 

[IR1907]

Good news, ISIS animals should be driven away all the way to saudi arabia.

CNN NationalSecurity ‏@NatSecCNN 5h CNN confirms US,Iraqi military op to retake Mosul Dam from ISIS was to begin Friday 6pET. US,Iraqi airstrikes + Iraqi,Kurdish ground forces

 

[manlion]

Peshmerga should starting behaving as men. Crying, requesting for back-up shows how much trust can be put onto them. 10 years of military readiness collapsed in front of some 1 year old Al Qaida offshoot.

Kurds gambled, sided with US in 2003, then stood neutral when IS attacked Shias in June. They took Kirkuk, but lost Yazidi majority areas. Either gamble, or exchange, whatever you call it.

Kurdistan's Barzani slams Peshmerga leaders in Sinjar and subject them to
investigation

 

[C130]

Peshmerga should starting behaving as men. Crying, requesting for back-up shows how much trust can be put onto them. 10 years of military readiness collapsed in front of some 1 year old Al Qaida offshoot.

Kurds gambled, sided with US in 2003, then stood neutral when IS attacked Shias in June. They took Kirkuk, but lost Yazidi majority areas. Either gamble, or exchange, whatever you call it.

come on now let's give IS some credit.
-battle hardened -years of conflict with U.S and Syria
-morally motivated in the cause of Allah and forming a Caliphate
-hundreds of million if not a billion in funds/cash
-have plundered Syria caches of weapons and Iraqi weaponry

Pershmega and Anti-IS opponets are doing their best. they need more supplies and intelligence and air support from U.S/Iraqi

 

[1000]

come on now let's give IS some credit.
-battle hardened -years of conflict with U.S and Syria
-morally motivated in the cause of Allah and forming a Caliphate
-hundreds of million if not a billion in funds/cash
-have plundered Syria caches of weapons and Iraqi weaponry

Pershmega and Anti-IS opponets are doing their best. they need more supplies and intelligence and air support from U.S/Iraqi

All of that is irrelevant, when you have a big mouth and run away afterwards then you opened the doors to be made fun of, we saw peshmerga partying, making fun of the Iraqi army as if they're much better and always boasting about their bravery.
First organized ISIS attack it turned out they are an organization of pussies not capable of anything, not any more or less then the average Iraqi soldier who doesn't know what aiming means but at least we know what the problem is.

 

[Alienoz_TR]

come on now let's give IS some credit.
-battle hardened -years of conflict with U.S and Syria
-morally motivated in the cause of Allah and forming a Caliphate
-hundreds of million if not a billion in funds/cash
-have plundered Syria caches of weapons and Iraqi weaponry

Pershmega and Anti-IS opponets are doing their best. they need more supplies and intelligence and air support from U.S/Iraqi

Why Obama Wants Maliki Removed
The real reason he’s under attack is because he wouldn’t sign the Status of Forces Agreement in 2011. He refused to grant immunity to the tens of thousands of troops the administration wanted to leave in Iraq following the formal withdrawal. That’s what angered Washington. That’s why the administration wants Maliki replaced.

Oil, that’s why. Let’s put it this way: There are 10 reasons why Obama bombed ISIS positions outside of Erbil. They are:

1–Exxon Mobil

2–Chevron

3–Aspect Energy

4–Marathon Oil Corporation

5–Hillwood International Energy

6–Hunt Oil

7–Prime Oil

8–Murphy Oil

9–Hess Corporation

10–HKN Energy

So what’s the message here? What is Obama telegraphing to ISIS about US policy?

It’s simple. “You can kill as many Arabs and Christians as you want, but if you lay a finger on even one oil well, we’ll nuke you into oblivion.” Isn’t that the message?

Why Obama Wants Maliki Removed » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

All of that is irrelevant, when you have a big mouth and run away afterwards then you opened the doors to be made fun of, we saw peshmerga partying, making fun of the Iraqi army as if they're much better and always boasting about their bravery.
First organized ISIS attack it turned out they are an organization of pussies not capable of anything, not any more or less then the average Iraqi soldier who doesn't know what aiming means but at least we know what the problem is.

I am not even sure if Peshmerga knows what the numbers on Ak-47 sights mean.

 

[1000]

I am not even sure if Peshmerga knows what the numbers on Ak-47 sights mean.

France is providing Milan anti tank missiles to KRG.

Knowing how badly trained peshmerga are we already know some Milan will end up in ISIS hands and perhaps some in PKK hands as PKK is now helping peshmerga.

 

[atatwolf]

Peshmerga should starting behaving as men. Crying, requesting for back-up shows how much trust can be put onto them. 10 years of military readiness collapsed in front of some 1 year old Al Qaida offshoot.

Kurds gambled, sided with US in 2003, then stood neutral when IS attacked Shias in June. They took Kirkuk, but lost Yazidi majority areas. Either gamble, or exchange, whatever you call it.

This... Kurds don't have any honor. They should cooperate with Iraq but they don't because they wanted to use this conflict to declare independence. Never trust Kurds. Now regular Kurds, Arab and other minorities have to suffer because of their greed. Now they are begging US for assistence when Kurds have all the equipment they need. Tanks, heli's and artilery. IT IS A LIE that Kurds don't have enough equipment. They are just cowards and bad fighters.

France is providing Milan anti tank missiles to KRG.

Knowing how badly trained peshmerga are we already know some Milan will end up in ISIS hands and perhaps some in PKK hands as PKK is now helping peshmerga.

It will end up in PKK hands. That is why IS should destroy PKK.