ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The jihadist fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) have committed at least four million human rights abuses in 2014, Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights announced. Child recruitment, abduction, rape, and killing civilians were among the abuses reported by the Iraqi ministry, “An estimated 3000 people are missing since ISIS took control of some parts of Iraq since 2014,” said Mohamad Mahdi Bayati, Iraqi Minister to human rights reporters in a press conference on Saturday. According to the source the radical group shows no regards to human rights and barbarically kills and beheads civilians in the areas they control. The evidence gathered by the ministry show that a total of 4 million human rights violations against civilians were committed by ISIS during their surge in Iraq in 2014. “They [ISIS] have committed almost all kinds of abuses including enforcing child recruitment, violation of freedom, destructions of historical sites and artifacts, killing and beheading prisoners, mass killing against minorities and more,” Bayati added. In a systematic and widespread manner, ISIS militant have killed civilians based on region or ethnicity and used rape as a weapon of war and intimidation. Thousands of children have also been kidnapped by ISIS, whom they later brainwash and use for military purposes including suicide bombings. In addition to Mosul, its current stronghold Mosul and Iraq’s largest city, ISIS took control of large territories West of Iraq since June 2014 Kurdish Peshmerga forces, the Iraqi army backed by Shiite militias, and air support from US-led coalition forces have been battling the radical group in Iraq since last year. The ISIS extremists have captured one third of Syrian territories since 2014, and have been routinely carrying out wide-scale kidnapping, suicide bombings, executions, and beheadings.
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