ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The High Commission for Human Rights in Iraq (IHCHR) has estimated the Islamic State group, or ISIS, has committed at least five million human right abuses in only five months, and has categorized some of the crimes as genocide. Fazel Ghazawi, head of the rights watchdog, said in a statement release on Friday the jihadists have committed crimes against women, children, and people with disabilities. “Some of these brutal crimes can be considered as genocide,” said the statement. According to the IHCHR, the extremists have committed 22,000 murder attempts in five months. The report said this wave of assaults led to the deaths of at least 8,047 people and injured 14,487 more. The Iraqi Ministry of Health on Wednesday began exhuming a mass grave of 470 people killed by the Islamic State group in Salahaddin province near the military training center of Camp Speicher. More than 1,700 trainees are believed to have been killed there when ISIS militants overran the area last year. The rights group also noted that ISIS has brutally targeted Iraq's indigenous religious minorities, including Christians and followers of the ancient Yazidi faith.
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