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Human rights in Islamic State-controlled territory

February 15, 2024

The condition of human rights in the territory controlled by the Islamic State (IS) is considered to be one of the worst in the world.[1][2][3][4] The Islamic State's policies included acts of genocide,[5][6][7] torture[8][9] and slavery.[10][11] The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) stated in November 2014 that the Islamic State "seeks to subjugate civilians under its control and dominate every aspect of their lives through terror, indoctrination, and the provision of services to those who obey". Many Islamic State actions of extreme criminality, terror, recruitment and other activities has been documented in the Middle East.[12]

The territories in Iraq and Syria, which was occupied by the Islamic State and claimed as part of its self-dubbed "Caliphate"[13] saw the creation of one of the most criminally active, corrupt and violent regimes in modern times, and it ruled that territory until its defeat.[14] IS murdered tens of thousands of civilians,[15] kidnapped several thousand people, and forced hundreds of thousands of others to flee. It systematically committed torture, mass rapes, forced marriages,[16] extreme acts of ethnic cleansing, mass murder, genocide, robbery, extortion, smuggling, slavery, kidnappings, and the use of child soldiers; in its implementation of strict interpretations of Sharia law which were based on ancient eighth-century methods, they carried out public "punishments"[17] such as beheadings, crucifixions, beatings, mutilation and dismemberment, the stoning of both children and adults, and the live burning of people. IS members committed rape against tens of thousands of girls and women (mainly members of non-Sunni minority groups and families).

Several human rights organizations and peace organizations, including Human Rights Watch, the United Nations and Amnesty International, have deemed IS guilty of crimes against humanity, and they have also accused the whole IS organization of being a criminal organization, one which has committed some of the most severe war crimes since World War II.[18][19]

UN's determinations edit

A UN report released in 2014 stated that between 6 July and 10 September 2014, IS and allied insurgent groups launched violence in an "apparent systematic and widespread character" across Iraq. The report stated that these violent acts included forced abductions and perpetration of "sexual and physical violence" against women and children.[19]

In November 2014, the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic said that the Islamic State was committing crimes against humanity and that it "seeks to subjugate civilians under its control and dominate every aspect of their lives through terror, indoctrination, and the provision of services to those who obey."[20] In October 2015, the UN Human Rights Council "strongly condemn[ed] the terrorist acts and violence committed against civilians by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh), al-Nusrah Front and other extremist groups, and their continued gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, and reaffirm[ed] that terrorism, including the actions of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh), cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality or civilization."[21]

Statements by human rights groups edit

A report by Human Rights Watch in November 2014 accused IS militants in Libya's Derna of war crimes and human rights abuses and of terrorizing residents. Human Rights Watch documented three apparent incidents in which captives were killed and at least ten public floggings by the Islamic Youth Shura Council, which joined IS in November. It also documented the beheading of three Derna residents and dozens of seemingly politically motivated assassinations of judges, public officials, members of the security forces and others. Sarah Leah Watson, Director of HRW Middle East and North Africa, said: "Commanders should understand that they may face domestic or international prosecution for the grave rights abuses their forces are committing."[22]

Various human rights groups and many Iraqi Turkmen themselves accused the Islamic State of carrying Anti-Turkish thoughts, which led to the Iraqi Turkmen genocide.[23][24]

Amnesty International has held IS responsible for the ethnic cleansing of ethnic and religious minority groups in northern Iraq on a "historic scale". It issued a special report in late 2014 describing how IS has "systematically targeted non-Arab and non-Sunni Muslim communities, killing or abducting hundreds, possibly thousands, and forcing more than 830,000 others to flee the areas it has captured since 10 June 2014". Among these people are Assyrian Christians, Turkmen Shia, Shabak Shia, Yazidis, Kaka'i and Mandaeans, who have lived together for centuries in Nineveh province, large parts of which became under IS's control.[25][26]

Genocide and other war crimes edit

IS's crimes of murder, ethnic cleansing, enslavement and rape[27] against Shia,[28][29] Christian,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36], Yazidis[37][38] and various religious minorities within its territories were recognized as a genocide by the European Parliament and U.S. House of Representatives in 2014. In 2017, CNN journalists Jomana Karadsheh and Chris Jackson reported exclusively on the efforts by Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) to bring IS to justice of war crimes committed against Yazidis.[39] There are also many Sunni Muslim victims of IS.

One captured IS fighter boasted about raping over 200 women from Iraq's minority groups and killing over 500 people and claimed he was encouraged to do so by the leadership.[40]

On occasions, IS executed women who refused to have sex with its fighters.[41] In a briefing to the UN Security Council held on 10 May 2021, a UN investigative team stated that IS launched a genocide against Yazidis "as a religious group" during the Sinjar massacre, with the objective of eliminating them "physically and biologically".[42]

Religious and minority group massacres, forced conversion, and expulsion edit

See also: Arabization, Persecution of Christians by the Islamic State, Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State, Yazidi genocide, Islamization, and Iraqi Turkmen genocide
 
Yazidi refugees on Mount Sinjar in August 2014

IS compels people in the areas that it controls to live according to its interpretation of sharia law.[43][44] There have been many reports of the group's use of death threats, torture and mutilation to compel conversion to Islam,[43][44] and of clerics being killed for refusal to pledge allegiance to the so-called "Islamic State".[45] IS directs violence against Shia Muslims, Alawites, Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac and Armenian Christians, Yazidis, Druze, Shabaks and Mandeans in particular.[46]

IS fighters have targeted Syria's minority Alawite sect.[47][48] IS and affiliated jihadist groups reportedly took the lead in an offensive on Alawite villages in Latakia Governorate of Syria in August 2013.[49][50]

Amnesty International has held IS responsible for the ethnic cleansing of ethnic and religious minority groups in northern Iraq on a "historic scale", putting entire communities "at risk of being wiped off the map of Iraq". In a special report released on 2 September 2014, the organization described how IS had "systematically targeted non-Arab and non-Sunni Muslim communities, killing or abducting hundreds, possibly thousands, of individuals and forcing more than 830,000 others to flee the areas it has captured since 10 June 2014". Among these people were Assyrian Christians, Turkmen Shia, Shabak Shia, Kaka'i, Yazidis and Mandaeans, who have lived together for centuries in Nineveh province, large parts of which have come under IS's control.[26][51]

Among the known killings of religious and minority group civilians carried out by IS are those in the villages and towns of Quiniyeh (70–90 Yazidis killed), Hardan (60 Yazidis killed), Sinjar (500–2,000 Yazidis killed), Ramadi Jabal (60–70 Yazidis killed), Dhola (50 Yazidis killed), Khana Sor (100 Yazidis killed), Hardan area (250–300 Yazidis killed), al-Shimal (dozens of Yazidis killed), Khocho (400 Yazidis killed and 1,000 abducted), Jadala (14 Yazidis killed)[52] and Beshir (700 Shia Turkmen killed),[citation needed] and others committed near Mosul (670 Shia inmates of the Badush prison killed),[citation needed] and in Tal Afar prison, Iraq (200 Yazidis killed for refusing conversion).[52] The UN estimated that 5,000 Yazidis were killed by IS during the takeover of parts of northern Iraq in August 2014.[citation needed] In late May 2014, 150 Kurdish boys from Kobani aged 14–16 were abducted and subjected to torture and abuse, according to Human Rights Watch.[53] In the Syrian towns of Ghraneij, Abu Haman and Kashkiyeh 700 members of the Sunni Al-Shaitat tribe were killed for attempting an uprising against IS control.[54][55] The UN reported that in June 2014 IS had killed a number of Sunni Islamic clerics who refused to pledge allegiance to it.[45]

Christians living in areas under IS control face four options: converting to Islam, paying a religious levy called the jizya, leaving the caliphate, or death.[56][57] "We offer them three choices: Islam; the dhimma contract – involving payment of jizya; if they refuse this they will have nothing but the sword", IS said.[58] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of IS till his 2019 demise, further noted that Christians who do not agree with those terms must "leave the borders of the Islamic Caliphate" within a specified deadline.[58] IS had already set similar rules for Christians in Raqqa, once one of Syria's more liberal cities.[59][60] However, on 29 March 2016, IS issued a decree preventing Christians and Armenians from leaving Raqqa.[61][62]

On 23 February 2015, in response to a major Kurdish offensive in the Al-Hasakah Governorate, IS abducted 150 Assyrian Christians from villages near Tal Tamr (Tell Tamer) in northeastern Syria, after launching a large offensive in the region.[63][64]

Kurdish officials have claimed that IS's campaign against Kurdish and Yezidi enclaves, such as Sinjar, are part of an organised Arabization plan.[65]

According to Iraqi security officials, Islamic State militants targeted a football ground, built near a Shiite shrine in the city of Kirkuk. They shot mortar rounds that killed six civilians and injured nine others, on August 24, 2019. In another attack day before, a bike equipped with explosives blasted near a mosque in Shia-majority area of Mussayyib, killing three people and wounding 34.[66]

Shia Muslims edit

Main article: Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State

Despite being the religious majority in Iraq, Shia Muslims who predominantly inhabit the country's south were killed in large numbers by IS.[67] By June 2014, IS had already claimed to have killed 1,700 Shia Muslims.[67] IS, attempting to create a Sunni Muslim caliphate, has labelled all Shia Muslims infidels.[67] As a result, they have specifically targeted Shia communities.[68] According to witnesses, after the militant group took the city of Mosul, they divided the Sunni prisoners from the Shia prisoners.[68] 650 Shia prisoners were then taken to another location and executed.[68] Kurdish officials in Erbil have reported similar incidents where Sunni and Shia prisoners were separated and Shia prisoners were killed.[68] Sometimes, Shia were burned alive.[69]

Iraqi Turkmen edit

Main article: Iraqi Turkmen genocide

Iraqi Turkmen generally never got involved in the Iraqi conflict until the Islamic State began a violent process of persecution against them. They had 200,000 Turkmen displaced, thousands killed, and hundreds still missing. The Iraqi Turkmen Front stated that the attacks on Turkmens were an ethnic cleansing attempt.[70]

Christians edit

Further information: Persecution of Christians by the Islamic State

Iraqi Christians, the majority being the Chaldean Christians of northern Iraq, have also been targeted by IS.[67] The group warns Christians they must either convert to Islam, pay a fine, or face execution.[67] At one point, IS took over Qaraqosh, Iraq's largest Christian city.[67] Christians who fled the city reported summary executions and mass beheadings.[71] Some were kidnapped and held for ransom.[71] Others were publicly whipped for refusing to convert to Islam.[71] Many Christians were displaced, fleeing their villages to escape IS.[67] The group also systematically destroyed Christian churches and shrines.[72] IS fighters destroyed and vandalized many Christian monuments, and they have taken down crosses from the tops of churches, replacing them with IS flags.[73] They marked Christian homes with an Arabic "N" which stands for "Nasrane", a word used by Muslims to describe followers of the Christian faith.[71]

Yazidis edit

See also: Yazidi genocide
 
Images from top, left and right: Yazidi refugees receiving support from the International Rescue Committee. A member of the U.S. Mt. Sinjar Assessment Team being greeted by locals near Sinjar, Iraq. Bundles of water inside a C-17 Globemaster III before a humanitarian airdrop by the United States Air Force

The persecution of Yazidis has been labelled a genocide. This religious sect was subjected to massacres, forced conversion, forced exile, rape,[74] torture, slavery, sexual slavery,[27] and forced conscription. There were numerous massacres in attacks on Yazidi villages. In many of the massacres, militants separated the men from the women.[75] Afterward, the men were lined up at checkpoints along the side of the road, shot, and bulldozed into mass graves.[75] Sometimes, men were also given the option of converting to Islam or being executed, so there were many instances of both forced conversions and killings for refusal to convert to IS's version of Islam.[75] Other Yazidi men were forced into Yazidi temples and blown up inside or taken into captivity.[75]

Yazidi women and children captives were often raped by multiple men, typically friends of their captors. They believed that if a woman is raped by ten IS fighters, she would become Muslim.[76] Many were also sold as sex slaves to IS fighters.[77] There are also reports that women forced into sex slavery were subjected to forced abortions.[76] Many of these captives tried to take their own lives.[78]

Sinjar Massacre edit

The Sinjar massacre was the killing and abduction of thousands[79][80][81] of Yazidi men in Sinjar (Kurdish: شنگال Şingal) city and Sinjar District in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate by IS in August 2014. This event started with IS militants attacking and capturing Sinjar and neighboring towns on 3 August, during IS's offensive in early August 2014.

The New York Times reported on 7 August 2014 that IS had executed dozens of Yazidi men in Sinjar city and had taken their wives for unmarried jihadi fighters.[82] It was also reported that IS fighters executed over ten caretakers of Shia Sayeda Zeinab shrine in Sinjar before blowing it up.[83]

While the siege of Mount Sinjar was continuing, IS killed hundreds of Yazidis in at least six of the nearby villages. 250–300 men were killed in the village of Hardan, 200 between Adnaniya and Jazeera, 70–90 in Qiniyeh, and on the road out of al-Shimal witnesses reported seeing dozens of bodies.[84] Hundreds of others had also been killed for refusing to convert to Islam.[80]

On 15 August 2014, in the Yazidi village of Khocho, south of Sinjar, after the whole population had received the jihadist ultimatum to convert or be killed, over 80 men were killed.[85][86] A witness recounted that the villagers were first converted under duress,[87] but when the village elder refused to convert, all of the men were taken in trucks under the pretext of being led to Sinjar, and gunned down along the way. According to reports from survivors interviewed by OHCHR, on 15 August, the entire male population of the Yazidi village of Khocho, up to 400 men, were rounded up and shot by IS, and up to 1,000 women and children were abducted.[88][89]

On the same day, up to 200 Yazidi men were reportedly executed for refusing conversion in a Tal Afar prison.[84] The massacres took place at least until 25 August when IS executed 14 elderly Yazidi men in Sheikh Mand Shrine in Jidala, western Sinjar, and blew up the shrine there.[90]

40,000 or more Yazidis were trapped in the Sinjar Mountains and mostly surrounded by IS forces[91] who were firing on them.[92] They were largely without food, water or medical care, facing starvation and dehydration. Human Rights Watch organization reported in 2018 that IS captured approximately 6,300 Yazidis in Sinjar and forced Yazidi women into "a system of organized rape and sexual slavery".[4]

Death toll edit

By 2014, a U.N. Human Rights commission estimated that 9,347[93] civilians had been murdered by IS in Iraq, then however; by 2016 a second report by the United Nations estimated 18,802[94] deaths. The Sinjar massacre in 2014 resulted in the killings of between 2,000[81][95] and 5,000[80] civilians.

Attacks on members of the press edit

The Committee to Protect Journalists states: "Without a free press, few other human rights are attainable."[96] IS has tortured and murdered local journalists,[97][98] creating what Reporters Without Borders calls "news blackholes" in areas controlled by IS. IS fighters have reportedly been given written directions to kill or capture journalists.[99]

In December 2013, two suicide bombers stormed the headquarters of TV station Salaheddin and killed five journalists, after accusing the station of "distorting the image of Iraq's Sunni community". Reporters Without Borders reported that on 7 September 2014, IS seized and on 11 October publicly beheaded Raad al-Azzawi, a TV Salaheddin cameraman from the village of Samra, east of Tikrit.[100] As of October 2014, according to the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, IS held nine journalists and has nine others under close observation in Mosul and Salahuddin province.[99]

During 2013 and part of 2014, an IS unit nicknamed the Beatles acquired and held 12 Western journalists hostage, along with aid workers and other foreign hostages, totalling 23 or 24 known hostages. A Polish journalist Marcin Suder was captured in July 2013 but escaped four months later.[101] The unit executed American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and released beheading videos. Eight of the other journalists were released for ransom: Danish journalist Daniel Rye Ottosen, French journalists Didier François, Edouard Elias, Nicolas Hénin, and Pierre Torres, and Spanish journalists Marc Marginedas, Javier Espinosa, and Ricardo García Vilanova. The unit continues to hold hostage British journalist John Cantlie and a female aid worker.[102]

Cyber-security group the Citizen Lab released a report finding a possible link between IS and a digital attack on the Syrian citizen media group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RSS). Supporters of the media group received an emailed link to an image of supposed airstrikes, but clicking on the link introduced malware to the user's computer that sends details of the user's IP address and system each time it restarts. That information has been enough to allow IS to locate RSS supporters. "The group has been targeted for kidnappings, house raids, and at least one alleged targeted killing. At the time of that writing, IS was allegedly holding several citizen journalists in Raqqa", according to the Citizen Lab report.[103]

On 8 January 2015, IS members in Libya claimed to have executed Tunisian journalists Sofiene Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari who disappeared in September 2014.[104] Also in January 2015, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto was kidnapped and beheaded, after a demand for a $200 million ransom payment was not met.[105]

Beheadings and mass executions edit

Main article: Islamic State beheading incidents
See also: Beheading video and Beheading in Islamism

An unknown number of Syrians and Iraqis, several Lebanese soldiers, male and female Kurdish fighters near Kobanî, two American journalists, one American and two British aid workers, 30 Ethiopian Christians[106] and 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya[107] were beheaded by IS. The militant group uses beheadings to intimidate local populations and has released a series of propaganda videos aimed at Western countries.[108] IS was reported to have beheaded about 100 foreign fighters as deserters who tried to leave Raqqa.[109]

They also engage in public and mass executions of Syrian and Iraqi soldiers and civilians,[47] sometimes forcing prisoners to dig their own graves before shooting lines of prisoners and pushing them in.[110][111] Among the known mass executions of captured soldiers carried out by IS are those in Tikrit (IS executed up to 1,700 Shia Iraqi Air Force cadets from Camp Speicher near Tikrit on 12 June 2014),[112][113] Al-Thawrah (IS executed 250 Syrian soldiers captured at the Al-Tabqa air base between 27 and 28 August 2014),[114] Palmyra (up to 280 Syrian soldiers and government loyalists were shot in the head or beheaded in a public square on 22 May 2015),[115] and Deir ez-Zor (IS killed at least 300 Syrian soldiers, pro-government militiamen and their families on 16 January 2016).[116]

IS executed 600 Shia prisoners in Mosul in June 2014.[117] In November 2014, there were reports that IS fighters massacred more than 630 members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq. Albu Nimr was one of the Sunni Arab tribes that fiercely opposed IS.[118] On 17 December 2014, it was reported by Turkish media, that IS had executed at least 150 women from the Albu Nimr tribe in Falluja for refusing to marry IS militants.[119]

Use of chemical weapons edit

 
A destroyed IS chemical weapons factory in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, 9 March 2017
Further information: Use of chemical weapons in the Iraqi civil war and Use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war

In 2014, the Islamic State launched a program to manufacture chemical weapons with chlorine and a World War I-era toxin which is known as sulfur mustard. [120] Kurds in northern Iraq reported that IS attacked them with chemical weapons in August 2015,[121] which was later confirmed to be mustard gas.[122] At Kobanî, it is highly likely that IS used chlorine gas. These chemical weapons may have been from a chemical weapons storage site at Al-Muthanna, which contained 2,500 chemical rockets. Although the rockets' chemical contents were deteriorated, IS may have used them in a concentrated manner.[123]

Destruction of cultural and religious heritage edit

Main article: Destruction of cultural heritage by the Islamic State

UNESCO's Director-General Irina Bokova has warned that IS is destroying Iraq's cultural heritage, in what she has called "cultural cleansing". "We don't have time to lose because extremists are trying to erase the identity, because they know that if there is no identity, there is no memory, there is no history", she said. Referring to the ancient cultures of Christians, Yazidis and other minorities, she said, "This is a way to destroy identity. You deprive them of their culture, you deprive them of their history, their heritage, and that is why it goes hand in hand with genocide. Along with the physical persecution they want to eliminate – to delete – the memory of these different cultures ... we think this is appalling, and this is not acceptable."[124] Saad Eskander, head of Iraq's National Archives said, "For the first time you have cultural cleansing... For the Yazidis, religion is oral, nothing is written. By destroying their places of worship... you are killing cultural memory. It is the same with the Christians – it really is a threat beyond belief."[125]

 
Temple of Bel in Palmyra, which was destroyed by IS in August 2015

To finance its activities, IS stole artefacts from Syria[126] and Iraq, sending them to Europe to be sold. UNESCO has asked for United Nations Security Council controls on the sale of antiquities, similar to those imposed after the 2003 Iraq War. UNESCO is working with Interpol, national customs authorities, museums, and major auction houses in attempts to prevent looted items from being sold.[125] IS occupied Mosul Museum, the second most important museum in Iraq, as it was about to reopen after years of rebuilding following the Iraq War, saying that the statues were against Islam and threatening to destroy the museum's contents.[127][128]

IS considers worshipping at graves tantamount to idolatry, and seeks to purify the community of unbelievers. It has used bulldozers to crush buildings and archaeological sites.[128] Bernard Haykel has described al-Baghdadi's creed as "a kind of untamed Wahhabism", saying, "For Al Qaeda, violence is a means to an ends [sic]; for ISIS, it is an end in itself".[129] The destruction by IS in July 2014 of the tomb and shrine of the prophet Yunus – Jonah in Christianity – the 13th-century mosque of Imam Yahya Abu al-Qassimin, the 14th-century shrine of prophet Jerjis – St George to Christians – and the attempted destruction of the Hadba minaret at the 12th-century Great Mosque of Al-Nuri have been described as "an unchecked outburst of extreme Wahhabism".[citation needed] "There were explosions that destroyed buildings dating back to the Assyrian era", said National Museum of Iraq director Qais Rashid, referring to the destruction of the shrine of Yunus. He cited another case where "Daesh [IS] gathered over 1,500 manuscripts from convents and other holy places and burnt all of them in the middle of the city square".[130] In March 2015, IS reportedly bulldozed the 13th-century BC Assyrian city of Nimrud, believing its sculptures to be idolatrous. UNESCO head, Irina Bokova, deemed this to be a war crime.[131]

IS has burned or stolen collections of books and papers from the various locations including the Central Library of Mosul (which they rigged with explosives and burned down),[132] the library at the University of Mosul, a Sunni Muslim library, a 265-year-old Latin Church and Monastery of the Dominican Fathers, and the Mosul Museum Library. Some destroyed or stolen works date back to 5000 BCE and include "Iraq newspapers dating to the early 20th century, maps and books from the Ottoman Empire, and book collections contributed by about 100 of Mosul's establishment families." The stated goal is to destroy all non-Islamic books.

An investigation led by the Human Rights Watch disclosed that Al-Hota gorge that was once a beautiful natural site in northeastern Syria is used by IS as a disposal ground for the bodies of people killed by them. The HRW investigation involved analysis of evidence such as, IS videos, interviews with locals, along with satellite images and drone footages of the gorge.[133]

Treatment of civilians edit

See also: Killing of captives by the Islamic State and Mass executions in Islamic State-occupied Mosul

During the Iraqi conflict in 2014, IS released dozens of videos showing its ill treatment of civilians, many of whom had apparently been targeted on the basis of their religion or ethnicity. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned of war crimes being committed in the Iraqi war zone, and disclosed a UN report of IS militants murdering Iraqi Army soldiers and 17 civilians in a single street in Mosul. The UN reported that in the 17 days from 5 to 22 June, IS killed more than 1,000 Iraqi civilians and injured more than 1,000.[134][135][136] After IS released photographs of its fighters shooting scores of young men, the UN declared that cold-blooded "executions" by militants in northern Iraq almost certainly amounted to war crimes.[137]

IS's advance in Iraq in mid-2014 was accompanied by continuing violence in Syria. On 29 May, IS raided a village in Syria and at least 15 civilians were killed, including, according to Human Rights Watch, at least six children.[138] A hospital in the area confirmed that it had received 15 bodies on the same day.[139] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that on 1 June, a 102-year-old man was killed along with his whole family in a village in Hama province.[140] According to Reuters, 1,878 people were killed in Syria by IS during the last six months of 2014, most of them civilians.[141]

During its occupation of Mosul, IS implemented a sharia school curriculum which banned the teaching of art, music, national history, literature and Christianity. Although Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has never been taught in Iraqi schools, that subject was also banned from the school curriculum. Patriotic songs were declared blasphemous, and orders were given to remove certain pictures from school textbooks.[142][143][144][145] Iraqi parents largely boycotted schools in which the new curriculum was introduced.[146]

After capturing cities in Iraq, IS issued guidelines on how to wear clothes and veils. IS warned women in the city of Mosul to wear full-face veils or face severe punishment.[147] A cleric told Reuters in Mosul that IS gunmen had ordered him to read out the warning in his mosque when worshippers gathered. IS ordered the faces of both male and female mannequins to be covered, in an order which also banned the use of naked mannequins.[148] In Raqqa the group used its two battalions of female fighters in the city to enforce compliance by women with its strict laws on individual conduct.[149]

IS released 16 notes labelled "Contract of the City", a set of rules aimed at civilians in Nineveh. One rule stipulated that women should stay at home and not go outside unless necessary. Another rule said that stealing would be punished by amputation.[150][151] In addition to banning the sale and use of alcohol, IS banned the sale and use of cigarettes and hookah pipes. It also banned "music and songs in cars, at parties, in shops and in public, as well as photographs of people in shop windows".[152]

According to The Economist, the group also adopted certain practices seen in Saudi Arabia, including the establishment of religious police to root out "vice" and enforce attendance at daily prayers, the widespread use of capital punishment, and the destruction of Christian churches and non-Sunni mosques or their conversion to other uses.[153]

IS carried out executions on both men and women who were accused of various acts and found guilty of crimes against Islam such as sodomy,[154] adultery, usage and possession of contraband, rape, blasphemy, witchcraft,[155] renouncing Islam and murder. Before the accused were executed, their charges were read to them and the spectators. Executions take various forms, including stoning to death, crucifixions, beheadings, burning people alive, and throwing people from tall buildings.[156][157][158][159] The Islamic State in Iraq frequently carried out mass executions in Mosul and Hawija.

The Islamic State militants were accused of using civilian residents of towns as human shields.[160] The Telegraph reported that "Extremist fighters are deliberately hiding among civilian buildings and residents to try to prevent strikes."[161][162] Civil rights activist told ARA News that "ISIS militants prevent the people of Manbij and Jarablus from leaving their hometowns despite the fierce airstrikes by Russian warplanes".[163] The use of human shields and executions of civilians who tried to flee continued in Iraq right through until the group lost is final major urban territory there after its defeat in the Battle for Mosul in July 2017.[164]

In August 2019, the terror group claimed responsibility of the suicide bomb attack in a crowded wedding hall in Kabul. It marked one of the most devastating attacks on civilians in years of conflict and terror, where nearly 63 people died and more than 180 were wounded.[165]

Child soldiers edit

See also: Military use of children

According to a report by the magazine Foreign Policy, children as young as six are recruited or kidnapped and sent to military and religious training camps, where they practice beheading with dolls and are indoctrinated with the religious views of IS.[166] Children are used as human shields on front lines and to provide blood transfusions for Islamic State soldiers,[166] according to Shelly Whitman of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative. The second installment of a Vice News documentary about IS focused on how the group is specifically grooming children for the future. A spokesman told VICE News that those under the age of 15 go to sharia camp to learn about religion, while those older than 16 can go to military training camp.[166] Children are also used for propaganda. According to a UN report, "In mid-August, IS entered a cancer hospital in Mosul, forced at least two sick children to hold the IS flag and posted the pictures on the internet." Misty Buswell, a Save the Children representative working with refugees in Jordan, said, "It's not an exaggeration to say we could lose a whole generation of children to trauma."[167] A UN report indicated that at least 89 children, mostly from the ages of 12 to 16 had been killed fighting for the Islamic State in 2015, 39% of which died in suicide bombing attacks.[168] Der Spiegel estimated in 2016 that 1,500 boys were serving as child soldiers for IS.[166] It was reported that on 12 March 2017, IS used 6 child suicide bombers against the Syrian Army soldiers besieged in Deir ez-Zor.[169]

Sexual violence and slavery edit

Further information: Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency and Slavery in 21st-century Islamism
See also: Islamic views on slavery, Ma malakat aymanukum, Raptio, and Wartime sexual violence

The sexual violence which was perpetrated by IS included its use of rape as a weapon of war;[170] instituting forced marriages to its fighters;[171] and trading women and girls as sex slaves.[172]

There are many reports of sexual abuse and enslavement in IS-controlled areas of women and girls, predominantly from the minority Christian and Yazidi communities.[173][174] Fighters were told that they were free to have sex with or rape non-Muslim captive women.[175] Haleh Esfandiari from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has highlighted the abuse of local women by IS militants after they have captured an area. "They usually take the older women to a makeshift slave market and try to sell them. The younger girls ... are raped or married off to fighters", she said, adding, "It's based on temporary marriages, and once these fighters have had sex with these young girls, they just pass them on to other fighters."[176] The three winners of a June 2015 Quran-memorization contest in Mosul were given sex slaves as prizes.[177]

The capture of Iraqi cities by the group in June 2014 was accompanied by an upsurge in crimes against women, including kidnap and rape.[178][179][180] According to Martin Williams in The Citizen, some hard-line Salafists apparently regard extramarital sex with multiple partners as a legitimate form of holy war and it is "difficult to reconcile this with a religion where some adherents insist that women must be covered from head to toe, with only a narrow slit for the eyes".[181]

As of August 2015, the trade in sex slaves appeared to remain restricted to Yazidi women and girls.[172] It has reportedly become a recruiting technique to attract men from conservative Muslim societies, where dating and casual sex are not allowed.[172] Nazand Begikhani said of the Yazidi victims, "These women have been treated like cattle ... They have been subjected to physical and sexual violence, including systematic rape and sex slavery. They've been exposed in markets in Mosul and in Raqqa, Syria, carrying price tags."[182] According to UN Reports, the price list for IS sex slaves ranged from 40 to 160 US dollars. The younger the slave the more expensive. Girls and boys between the age 1–9 were referred to as the most expensive, with the cheapest being women between 40 and 50 years old.[183] According to another source, the price of a slave equals the price of an AK-47.[184]

A United Nations report issued on 2 October 2014, based on 500 interviews with witnesses, said that IS took 450–500 women and girls to Iraq's Nineveh region in August, where "150 unmarried girls and women, predominantly from the Yazidi and Christian communities, were reportedly transported to Syria, either to be given to ISIL fighters as a reward or to be sold as sex slaves".[174] In mid-October, the UN confirmed that 5,000–7,000 Yazidi women and children had been abducted by IS and sold into slavery.[185] In November 2014 The New York Times reported on the accounts given by five who escaped IS of their captivity and abuse.[186] In December 2014, the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights announced that IS had killed over 150 women and girls in Fallujah who refused to participate in sexual jihad.[187] Non-Muslim women have reportedly been married off to fighters against their will. IS claims the women provide the new converts and children necessary to spread IS's control.[188]

Shortly after the death of US hostage Kayla Mueller was confirmed on 10 February 2015,[189] several media outlets reported that the US intelligence community believed she may have been given as a wife to an IS fighter.[190][191][192] In August 2015 it was confirmed that she had been forced into marriage[193] to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who raped her repeatedly.[194][193][195] The Mueller family was informed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that al-Baghdadi had sexually abused Ms. Mueller, and that Ms. Mueller had also been tortured.[195] Abu Sayyaf's widow, Umm Sayyaf, confirmed that it was her husband who had been Mueller's primary abuser.[196]

In its digital magazine Dabiq, IS explicitly claimed religious justification for enslaving Yazidi women.[197][198][199] According to The Wall Street Journal, IS appeals to apocalyptic beliefs and claims "justification by a Hadith that they interpret as portraying the revival of slavery as a precursor to the end of the world".[200] IS appeals to the hadith and Quran when claiming the right to enslave and rape captive non-Muslim women.[197][201][202] According to Dabiq, "enslaving the families of the kuffar and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Sharia's that if one were to deny or mock, he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Quran and the narration of the Prophet ... and thereby apostatizing from Islam." Captured Yazidi women and children are divided among the fighters who captured them, with one-fifth taken as a tax.[202][203] IS has received widespread criticism from Muslim scholars and others in the Muslim world for using part of the Quran to derive a ruling in isolation, rather than considering the entire Quran and hadith.[197][201][202] According to Mona Siddiqui, IS's "narrative may well be wrapped up in the familiar language of jihad and 'fighting in the cause of Allah', but it amounts to little more than destruction of anything and anyone who doesn't agree with them"; she describes IS as reflecting a "lethal mix of violence and sexual power" and a "deeply flawed view of manhood".[188] Dabiq describes "this large-scale enslavement" of non-Muslims as "probably the first since the abandonment of Shariah law".[202][203] In an article in a 2015 issue of the Islamic State magazine Dabiq, (quoted by author Graeme Wood) someone calling herself Umm Summayah al Muhajirah indignantly berated supporters of the Islamic State who had denied the use of slavery by Islamic State:

The [opponents of the Islamic State] dare to extend their tongues with false rumours and accusations so as to disfigure the great Shariah ruling and pure prophetic Sunnah titled "saby" [enslavement of girls]? After all this, saby becomes fornication and tasarri [concubinage] becomes rape? If only we'd heard these falsehoods from the kuffar [infidels] who are ignorant of our religion. Instead we hear it from those associated with our Ummah! So I say in astonishment: Are our people awake or asleep? But what really alarmed me was that some of the Islamic State supporters (may Allah forgive them) rushed to defend the Islamic State [by] denying the matter as if the soldiers of the Khilafah had committed a mistake or evil.[204]

 
YJÊ are women fighters trained by the Kurdish Workers Party guerillas to defend themselves against Islamist extremists.

In late 2014, IS released a pamphlet that focused on the treatment of female slaves.[205] It claims that the Quran allows fighters to have sex with captives, including adolescent girls, and to beat slaves as discipline. The pamphlet's guidelines also allow fighters to trade slaves, including for sex, as long as they have not been impregnated by their owners.[205][206] Charlie Winter, a researcher at the counter-extremist think tank Quilliam, described the pamphlet as "abhorrent".[206][207] In response to this document Abbas Barzegar, a religion professor at Georgia State University, said Muslims around the world find IS's "alien interpretation of Islam grotesque and abhorrent".[208] Muslim leaders and scholars from around the world have rejected the validity of IS's claims, claiming that the reintroduction of slavery is un-Islamic, that they are required to protect "People of the Scripture" including Christians, Jews, Muslims and Yazidis, and that IS's fatwas are invalid due to their lack of religious authority and the fatwas' inconsistency with Islam.[209][210]

The Independent reported in 2015 that the usage of Yazidi sex slaves had created ongoing friction among fighters within IS. Sajad Jiyad, a Research Fellow and Associate Member at the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform, told the newspaper that many IS supporters and fighters had been in denial about the trafficking of kidnapped Yazidi women until a Dabiq article justifying the practice was published.[211][212] The New York Times said in August 2015 that "[t]he systematic rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority has become deeply enmeshed in the organization and the radical theology of the Islamic State in the year since the group announced it was reviving slavery as an institution."[172] The article claims that IS is not merely exonerating but sacralising rape, and illustrated this with the testimony of escapees. One 15-year-old victim said that, while she was being assaulted, her rapist "kept telling me this is ibadah"; a 12-year-old victim related how her assailant claimed that, "by raping me, he is drawing closer to Allah";[172] and one adult prisoner told how, when she challenged her captor about repeatedly raping a 12 year old, she was met with the retort, "No, she's not a little girl, she's a slave and she knows exactly how to have sex and having sex with her pleases Allah."[172]

In July 2016 it was reported by an AP investigation that IS was using mobile apps like Telegram to sell their sex slaves and identify the slaves of other IS members at checkpoints.[213] In 2016, the Commission for International Justice and Accountability said they had identified 34 senior IS members who were instrumental in the systematic sex slave trade and planned to prosecute them after the end of hostilities.[214]

Slave trade edit

See also: History of slavery § Islamic State slave trade, Yazidi genocide § Sexual slavery and reproductive violence, Sexual slavery § Middle East, Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency, Islamic views on slavery, and Slavery in 21st-century Islamism

The Islamic State announced the revival of slavery as an institution.[215] In 2015, the official prices for slaves which were set by IS were the following:[216][217]

  • Children aged 1 to 9 were sold for 200,000 dinars ($169).
  • Women and children 10 to 20 years old for 150,000 dinars ($127).
  • Women 20 to 30 years old for 100,000 dinar ($85).
  • Women 30 to 40 years old for 75,000 dinar ($63).
  • Women 40 to 50 years old for 50,000 dinar ($42).

However, some slaves were sold for as little as a pack of cigarettes.[218] Sex slaves were sold to Saudi Arabia, other Persian Gulf countries and Turkey.[219]

LGBT rights edit

Main article: Persecution of gay and bisexual men by the Islamic State
Further information: LGBT in Islam

Allegations of organ trafficking edit

The group released a fatwa in which it permitted the removal of organs from non-Muslim captives.[220] The document says that "The apostate's life and organs don't have to be respected and may be taken with impunity."[220] The document seems to define apostate as non-Muslim though Shia Muslim captives may also be endangered by the fatwa due to IS's extreme interpretation of Islam.[220] The document also claims IS authorizes the removal of organs from captives even when it may kill them.[220] Iraq has accused the group of harvesting human organs for profit.[220]

See also edit

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human, rights, islamic, state, controlled, territory, condition, human, rights, territory, controlled, islamic, state, considered, worst, world, islamic, state, policies, included, acts, genocide, torture, slavery, united, nations, commission, human, rights, u. The condition of human rights in the territory controlled by the Islamic State IS is considered to be one of the worst in the world 1 2 3 4 The Islamic State s policies included acts of genocide 5 6 7 torture 8 9 and slavery 10 11 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights UNCHR stated in November 2014 that the Islamic State seeks to subjugate civilians under its control and dominate every aspect of their lives through terror indoctrination and the provision of services to those who obey Many Islamic State actions of extreme criminality terror recruitment and other activities has been documented in the Middle East 12 The territories in Iraq and Syria which was occupied by the Islamic State and claimed as part of its self dubbed Caliphate 13 saw the creation of one of the most criminally active corrupt and violent regimes in modern times and it ruled that territory until its defeat 14 IS murdered tens of thousands of civilians 15 kidnapped several thousand people and forced hundreds of thousands of others to flee It systematically committed torture mass rapes forced marriages 16 extreme acts of ethnic cleansing mass murder genocide robbery extortion smuggling slavery kidnappings and the use of child soldiers in its implementation of strict interpretations of Sharia law which were based on ancient eighth century methods they carried out public punishments 17 such as beheadings crucifixions beatings mutilation and dismemberment the stoning of both children and adults and the live burning of people IS members committed rape against tens of thousands of girls and women mainly members of non Sunni minority groups and families Several human rights organizations and peace organizations including Human Rights Watch the United Nations and Amnesty International have deemed IS guilty of crimes against humanity and they have also accused the whole IS organization of being a criminal organization one which has committed some of the most severe war crimes since World War II 18 19 Contents 1 UN s determinations 2 Statements by human rights groups 3 Genocide and other war crimes 3 1 Religious and minority group massacres forced conversion and expulsion 3 1 1 Shia Muslims 3 1 2 Iraqi Turkmen 3 1 3 Christians 3 1 4 Yazidis 3 1 4 1 Sinjar Massacre 3 1 5 Death toll 3 2 Attacks on members of the press 3 3 Beheadings and mass executions 3 4 Use of chemical weapons 3 5 Destruction of cultural and religious heritage 4 Treatment of civilians 4 1 Child soldiers 4 2 Sexual violence and slavery 4 3 Slave trade 4 4 LGBT rights 4 5 Allegations of organ trafficking 5 See also 6 ReferencesUN s determinations editA UN report released in 2014 stated that between 6 July and 10 September 2014 IS and allied insurgent groups launched violence in an apparent systematic and widespread character across Iraq The report stated that these violent acts included forced abductions and perpetration of sexual and physical violence against women and children 19 In November 2014 the UN s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic said that the Islamic State was committing crimes against humanity and that it seeks to subjugate civilians under its control and dominate every aspect of their lives through terror indoctrination and the provision of services to those who obey 20 In October 2015 the UN Human Rights Council strongly condemn ed the terrorist acts and violence committed against civilians by the so called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Daesh al Nusrah Front and other extremist groups and their continued gross systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law and reaffirm ed that terrorism including the actions of the so called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Daesh cannot and should not be associated with any religion nationality or civilization 21 Statements by human rights groups editA report by Human Rights Watch in November 2014 accused IS militants in Libya s Derna of war crimes and human rights abuses and of terrorizing residents Human Rights Watch documented three apparent incidents in which captives were killed and at least ten public floggings by the Islamic Youth Shura Council which joined IS in November It also documented the beheading of three Derna residents and dozens of seemingly politically motivated assassinations of judges public officials members of the security forces and others Sarah Leah Watson Director of HRW Middle East and North Africa said Commanders should understand that they may face domestic or international prosecution for the grave rights abuses their forces are committing 22 Various human rights groups and many Iraqi Turkmen themselves accused the Islamic State of carrying Anti Turkish thoughts which led to the Iraqi Turkmen genocide 23 24 Amnesty International has held IS responsible for the ethnic cleansing of ethnic and religious minority groups in northern Iraq on a historic scale It issued a special report in late 2014 describing how IS has systematically targeted non Arab and non Sunni Muslim communities killing or abducting hundreds possibly thousands and forcing more than 830 000 others to flee the areas it has captured since 10 June 2014 Among these people are Assyrian Christians Turkmen Shia Shabak Shia Yazidis Kaka i and Mandaeans who have lived together for centuries in Nineveh province large parts of which became under IS s control 25 26 Genocide and other war crimes editIS s crimes of murder ethnic cleansing enslavement and rape 27 against Shia 28 29 Christian 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Yazidis 37 38 and various religious minorities within its territories were recognized as a genocide by the European Parliament and U S House of Representatives in 2014 In 2017 CNN journalists Jomana Karadsheh and Chris Jackson reported exclusively on the efforts by Commission for International Justice and Accountability CIJA to bring IS to justice of war crimes committed against Yazidis 39 There are also many Sunni Muslim victims of IS One captured IS fighter boasted about raping over 200 women from Iraq s minority groups and killing over 500 people and claimed he was encouraged to do so by the leadership 40 On occasions IS executed women who refused to have sex with its fighters 41 In a briefing to the UN Security Council held on 10 May 2021 a UN investigative team stated that IS launched a genocide against Yazidis as a religious group during the Sinjar massacre with the objective of eliminating them physically and biologically 42 Religious and minority group massacres forced conversion and expulsion edit See also Arabization Persecution of Christians by the Islamic State Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State Yazidi genocide Islamization and Iraqi Turkmen genocide nbsp Yazidi refugees on Mount Sinjar in August 2014IS compels people in the areas that it controls to live according to its interpretation of sharia law 43 44 There have been many reports of the group s use of death threats torture and mutilation to compel conversion to Islam 43 44 and of clerics being killed for refusal to pledge allegiance to the so called Islamic State 45 IS directs violence against Shia Muslims Alawites Assyrian Chaldean Syriac and Armenian Christians Yazidis Druze Shabaks and Mandeans in particular 46 IS fighters have targeted Syria s minority Alawite sect 47 48 IS and affiliated jihadist groups reportedly took the lead in an offensive on Alawite villages in Latakia Governorate of Syria in August 2013 49 50 Amnesty International has held IS responsible for the ethnic cleansing of ethnic and religious minority groups in northern Iraq on a historic scale putting entire communities at risk of being wiped off the map of Iraq In a special report released on 2 September 2014 the organization described how IS had systematically targeted non Arab and non Sunni Muslim communities killing or abducting hundreds possibly thousands of individuals and forcing more than 830 000 others to flee the areas it has captured since 10 June 2014 Among these people were Assyrian Christians Turkmen Shia Shabak Shia Kaka i Yazidis and Mandaeans who have lived together for centuries in Nineveh province large parts of which have come under IS s control 26 51 Among the known killings of religious and minority group civilians carried out by IS are those in the villages and towns of Quiniyeh 70 90 Yazidis killed Hardan 60 Yazidis killed Sinjar 500 2 000 Yazidis killed Ramadi Jabal 60 70 Yazidis killed Dhola 50 Yazidis killed Khana Sor 100 Yazidis killed Hardan area 250 300 Yazidis killed al Shimal dozens of Yazidis killed Khocho 400 Yazidis killed and 1 000 abducted Jadala 14 Yazidis killed 52 and Beshir 700 Shia Turkmen killed citation needed and others committed near Mosul 670 Shia inmates of the Badush prison killed citation needed and in Tal Afar prison Iraq 200 Yazidis killed for refusing conversion 52 The UN estimated that 5 000 Yazidis were killed by IS during the takeover of parts of northern Iraq in August 2014 citation needed In late May 2014 150 Kurdish boys from Kobani aged 14 16 were abducted and subjected to torture and abuse according to Human Rights Watch 53 In the Syrian towns of Ghraneij Abu Haman and Kashkiyeh 700 members of the Sunni Al Shaitat tribe were killed for attempting an uprising against IS control 54 55 The UN reported that in June 2014 IS had killed a number of Sunni Islamic clerics who refused to pledge allegiance to it 45 Christians living in areas under IS control face four options converting to Islam paying a religious levy called the jizya leaving the caliphate or death 56 57 We offer them three choices Islam the dhimma contract involving payment of jizya if they refuse this they will have nothing but the sword IS said 58 Abu Bakr al Baghdadi the leader of IS till his 2019 demise further noted that Christians who do not agree with those terms must leave the borders of the Islamic Caliphate within a specified deadline 58 IS had already set similar rules for Christians in Raqqa once one of Syria s more liberal cities 59 60 However on 29 March 2016 IS issued a decree preventing Christians and Armenians from leaving Raqqa 61 62 On 23 February 2015 in response to a major Kurdish offensive in the Al Hasakah Governorate IS abducted 150 Assyrian Christians from villages near Tal Tamr Tell Tamer in northeastern Syria after launching a large offensive in the region 63 64 Kurdish officials have claimed that IS s campaign against Kurdish and Yezidi enclaves such as Sinjar are part of an organised Arabization plan 65 According to Iraqi security officials Islamic State militants targeted a football ground built near a Shiite shrine in the city of Kirkuk They shot mortar rounds that killed six civilians and injured nine others on August 24 2019 In another attack day before a bike equipped with explosives blasted near a mosque in Shia majority area of Mussayyib killing three people and wounding 34 66 Shia Muslims edit Main article Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State Despite being the religious majority in Iraq Shia Muslims who predominantly inhabit the country s south were killed in large numbers by IS 67 By June 2014 IS had already claimed to have killed 1 700 Shia Muslims 67 IS attempting to create a Sunni Muslim caliphate has labelled all Shia Muslims infidels 67 As a result they have specifically targeted Shia communities 68 According to witnesses after the militant group took the city of Mosul they divided the Sunni prisoners from the Shia prisoners 68 650 Shia prisoners were then taken to another location and executed 68 Kurdish officials in Erbil have reported similar incidents where Sunni and Shia prisoners were separated and Shia prisoners were killed 68 Sometimes Shia were burned alive 69 Iraqi Turkmen edit Main article Iraqi Turkmen genocide Iraqi Turkmen generally never got involved in the Iraqi conflict until the Islamic State began a violent process of persecution against them They had 200 000 Turkmen displaced thousands killed and hundreds still missing The Iraqi Turkmen Front stated that the attacks on Turkmens were an ethnic cleansing attempt 70 Christians edit Further information Persecution of Christians by the Islamic State Iraqi Christians the majority being the Chaldean Christians of northern Iraq have also been targeted by IS 67 The group warns Christians they must either convert to Islam pay a fine or face execution 67 At one point IS took over Qaraqosh Iraq s largest Christian city 67 Christians who fled the city reported summary executions and mass beheadings 71 Some were kidnapped and held for ransom 71 Others were publicly whipped for refusing to convert to Islam 71 Many Christians were displaced fleeing their villages to escape IS 67 The group also systematically destroyed Christian churches and shrines 72 IS fighters destroyed and vandalized many Christian monuments and they have taken down crosses from the tops of churches replacing them with IS flags 73 They marked Christian homes with an Arabic N which stands for Nasrane a word used by Muslims to describe followers of the Christian faith 71 Yazidis edit See also Yazidi genocide nbsp Images from top left and right Yazidi refugees receiving support from the International Rescue Committee A member of the U S Mt Sinjar Assessment Team being greeted by locals near Sinjar Iraq Bundles of water inside a C 17 Globemaster III before a humanitarian airdrop by the United States Air ForceThe persecution of Yazidis has been labelled a genocide This religious sect was subjected to massacres forced conversion forced exile rape 74 torture slavery sexual slavery 27 and forced conscription There were numerous massacres in attacks on Yazidi villages In many of the massacres militants separated the men from the women 75 Afterward the men were lined up at checkpoints along the side of the road shot and bulldozed into mass graves 75 Sometimes men were also given the option of converting to Islam or being executed so there were many instances of both forced conversions and killings for refusal to convert to IS s version of Islam 75 Other Yazidi men were forced into Yazidi temples and blown up inside or taken into captivity 75 Yazidi women and children captives were often raped by multiple men typically friends of their captors They believed that if a woman is raped by ten IS fighters she would become Muslim 76 Many were also sold as sex slaves to IS fighters 77 There are also reports that women forced into sex slavery were subjected to forced abortions 76 Many of these captives tried to take their own lives 78 Sinjar Massacre edit The Sinjar massacre was the killing and abduction of thousands 79 80 81 of Yazidi men in Sinjar Kurdish شنگال Singal city and Sinjar District in Iraq s Nineveh Governorate by IS in August 2014 This event started with IS militants attacking and capturing Sinjar and neighboring towns on 3 August during IS s offensive in early August 2014 The New York Times reported on 7 August 2014 that IS had executed dozens of Yazidi men in Sinjar city and had taken their wives for unmarried jihadi fighters 82 It was also reported that IS fighters executed over ten caretakers of Shia Sayeda Zeinab shrine in Sinjar before blowing it up 83 While the siege of Mount Sinjar was continuing IS killed hundreds of Yazidis in at least six of the nearby villages 250 300 men were killed in the village of Hardan 200 between Adnaniya and Jazeera 70 90 in Qiniyeh and on the road out of al Shimal witnesses reported seeing dozens of bodies 84 Hundreds of others had also been killed for refusing to convert to Islam 80 On 15 August 2014 in the Yazidi village of Khocho south of Sinjar after the whole population had received the jihadist ultimatum to convert or be killed over 80 men were killed 85 86 A witness recounted that the villagers were first converted under duress 87 but when the village elder refused to convert all of the men were taken in trucks under the pretext of being led to Sinjar and gunned down along the way According to reports from survivors interviewed by OHCHR on 15 August the entire male population of the Yazidi village of Khocho up to 400 men were rounded up and shot by IS and up to 1 000 women and children were abducted 88 89 On the same day up to 200 Yazidi men were reportedly executed for refusing conversion in a Tal Afar prison 84 The massacres took place at least until 25 August when IS executed 14 elderly Yazidi men in Sheikh Mand Shrine in Jidala western Sinjar and blew up the shrine there 90 40 000 or more Yazidis were trapped in the Sinjar Mountains and mostly surrounded by IS forces 91 who were firing on them 92 They were largely without food water or medical care facing starvation and dehydration Human Rights Watch organization reported in 2018 that IS captured approximately 6 300 Yazidis in Sinjar and forced Yazidi women into a system of organized rape and sexual slavery 4 Death toll edit By 2014 a U N Human Rights commission estimated that 9 347 93 civilians had been murdered by IS in Iraq then however by 2016 a second report by the United Nations estimated 18 802 94 deaths The Sinjar massacre in 2014 resulted in the killings of between 2 000 81 95 and 5 000 80 civilians Attacks on members of the press edit The Committee to Protect Journalists states Without a free press few other human rights are attainable 96 IS has tortured and murdered local journalists 97 98 creating what Reporters Without Borders calls news blackholes in areas controlled by IS IS fighters have reportedly been given written directions to kill or capture journalists 99 In December 2013 two suicide bombers stormed the headquarters of TV station Salaheddin and killed five journalists after accusing the station of distorting the image of Iraq s Sunni community Reporters Without Borders reported that on 7 September 2014 IS seized and on 11 October publicly beheaded Raad al Azzawi a TV Salaheddin cameraman from the village of Samra east of Tikrit 100 As of October 2014 update according to the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory IS held nine journalists and has nine others under close observation in Mosul and Salahuddin province 99 During 2013 and part of 2014 an IS unit nicknamed the Beatles acquired and held 12 Western journalists hostage along with aid workers and other foreign hostages totalling 23 or 24 known hostages A Polish journalist Marcin Suder was captured in July 2013 but escaped four months later 101 The unit executed American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and released beheading videos Eight of the other journalists were released for ransom Danish journalist Daniel Rye Ottosen French journalists Didier Francois Edouard Elias Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres and Spanish journalists Marc Marginedas Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova The unit continues to hold hostage British journalist John Cantlie and a female aid worker 102 Cyber security group the Citizen Lab released a report finding a possible link between IS and a digital attack on the Syrian citizen media group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently RSS Supporters of the media group received an emailed link to an image of supposed airstrikes but clicking on the link introduced malware to the user s computer that sends details of the user s IP address and system each time it restarts That information has been enough to allow IS to locate RSS supporters The group has been targeted for kidnappings house raids and at least one alleged targeted killing At the time of that writing IS was allegedly holding several citizen journalists in Raqqa according to the Citizen Lab report 103 On 8 January 2015 IS members in Libya claimed to have executed Tunisian journalists Sofiene Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari who disappeared in September 2014 104 Also in January 2015 Japanese journalist Kenji Goto was kidnapped and beheaded after a demand for a 200 million ransom payment was not met 105 Beheadings and mass executions edit Main article Islamic State beheading incidents See also Beheading video and Beheading in Islamism An unknown number of Syrians and Iraqis several Lebanese soldiers male and female Kurdish fighters near Kobani two American journalists one American and two British aid workers 30 Ethiopian Christians 106 and 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya 107 were beheaded by IS The militant group uses beheadings to intimidate local populations and has released a series of propaganda videos aimed at Western countries 108 IS was reported to have beheaded about 100 foreign fighters as deserters who tried to leave Raqqa 109 They also engage in public and mass executions of Syrian and Iraqi soldiers and civilians 47 sometimes forcing prisoners to dig their own graves before shooting lines of prisoners and pushing them in 110 111 Among the known mass executions of captured soldiers carried out by IS are those in Tikrit IS executed up to 1 700 Shia Iraqi Air Force cadets from Camp Speicher near Tikrit on 12 June 2014 112 113 Al Thawrah IS executed 250 Syrian soldiers captured at the Al Tabqa air base between 27 and 28 August 2014 114 Palmyra up to 280 Syrian soldiers and government loyalists were shot in the head or beheaded in a public square on 22 May 2015 115 and Deir ez Zor IS killed at least 300 Syrian soldiers pro government militiamen and their families on 16 January 2016 116 IS executed 600 Shia prisoners in Mosul in June 2014 117 In November 2014 there were reports that IS fighters massacred more than 630 members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq Albu Nimr was one of the Sunni Arab tribes that fiercely opposed IS 118 On 17 December 2014 it was reported by Turkish media that IS had executed at least 150 women from the Albu Nimr tribe in Falluja for refusing to marry IS militants 119 Use of chemical weapons edit nbsp A destroyed IS chemical weapons factory in Deir ez Zor Governorate Syria 9 March 2017Further information Use of chemical weapons in the Iraqi civil war and Use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war In 2014 the Islamic State launched a program to manufacture chemical weapons with chlorine and a World War I era toxin which is known as sulfur mustard 120 Kurds in northern Iraq reported that IS attacked them with chemical weapons in August 2015 121 which was later confirmed to be mustard gas 122 At Kobani it is highly likely that IS used chlorine gas These chemical weapons may have been from a chemical weapons storage site at Al Muthanna which contained 2 500 chemical rockets Although the rockets chemical contents were deteriorated IS may have used them in a concentrated manner 123 Destruction of cultural and religious heritage edit Main article Destruction of cultural heritage by the Islamic State UNESCO s Director General Irina Bokova has warned that IS is destroying Iraq s cultural heritage in what she has called cultural cleansing We don t have time to lose because extremists are trying to erase the identity because they know that if there is no identity there is no memory there is no history she said Referring to the ancient cultures of Christians Yazidis and other minorities she said This is a way to destroy identity You deprive them of their culture you deprive them of their history their heritage and that is why it goes hand in hand with genocide Along with the physical persecution they want to eliminate to delete the memory of these different cultures we think this is appalling and this is not acceptable 124 Saad Eskander head of Iraq s National Archives said For the first time you have cultural cleansing For the Yazidis religion is oral nothing is written By destroying their places of worship you are killing cultural memory It is the same with the Christians it really is a threat beyond belief 125 nbsp Temple of Bel in Palmyra which was destroyed by IS in August 2015To finance its activities IS stole artefacts from Syria 126 and Iraq sending them to Europe to be sold UNESCO has asked for United Nations Security Council controls on the sale of antiquities similar to those imposed after the 2003 Iraq War UNESCO is working with Interpol national customs authorities museums and major auction houses in attempts to prevent looted items from being sold 125 IS occupied Mosul Museum the second most important museum in Iraq as it was about to reopen after years of rebuilding following the Iraq War saying that the statues were against Islam and threatening to destroy the museum s contents 127 128 IS considers worshipping at graves tantamount to idolatry and seeks to purify the community of unbelievers It has used bulldozers to crush buildings and archaeological sites 128 Bernard Haykel has described al Baghdadi s creed as a kind of untamed Wahhabism saying For Al Qaeda violence is a means to an ends sic for ISIS it is an end in itself 129 The destruction by IS in July 2014 of the tomb and shrine of the prophet Yunus Jonah in Christianity the 13th century mosque of Imam Yahya Abu al Qassimin the 14th century shrine of prophet Jerjis St George to Christians and the attempted destruction of the Hadba minaret at the 12th century Great Mosque of Al Nuri have been described as an unchecked outburst of extreme Wahhabism citation needed There were explosions that destroyed buildings dating back to the Assyrian era said National Museum of Iraq director Qais Rashid referring to the destruction of the shrine of Yunus He cited another case where Daesh IS gathered over 1 500 manuscripts from convents and other holy places and burnt all of them in the middle of the city square 130 In March 2015 IS reportedly bulldozed the 13th century BC Assyrian city of Nimrud believing its sculptures to be idolatrous UNESCO head Irina Bokova deemed this to be a war crime 131 IS has burned or stolen collections of books and papers from the various locations including the Central Library of Mosul which they rigged with explosives and burned down 132 the library at the University of Mosul a Sunni Muslim library a 265 year old Latin Church and Monastery of the Dominican Fathers and the Mosul Museum Library Some destroyed or stolen works date back to 5000 BCE and include Iraq newspapers dating to the early 20th century maps and books from the Ottoman Empire and book collections contributed by about 100 of Mosul s establishment families The stated goal is to destroy all non Islamic books An investigation led by the Human Rights Watch disclosed that Al Hota gorge that was once a beautiful natural site in northeastern Syria is used by IS as a disposal ground for the bodies of people killed by them The HRW investigation involved analysis of evidence such as IS videos interviews with locals along with satellite images and drone footages of the gorge 133 Treatment of civilians editSee also Killing of captives by the Islamic State and Mass executions in Islamic State occupied Mosul During the Iraqi conflict in 2014 IS released dozens of videos showing its ill treatment of civilians many of whom had apparently been targeted on the basis of their religion or ethnicity Navi Pillay UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned of war crimes being committed in the Iraqi war zone and disclosed a UN report of IS militants murdering Iraqi Army soldiers and 17 civilians in a single street in Mosul The UN reported that in the 17 days from 5 to 22 June IS killed more than 1 000 Iraqi civilians and injured more than 1 000 134 135 136 After IS released photographs of its fighters shooting scores of young men the UN declared that cold blooded executions by militants in northern Iraq almost certainly amounted to war crimes 137 IS s advance in Iraq in mid 2014 was accompanied by continuing violence in Syria On 29 May IS raided a village in Syria and at least 15 civilians were killed including according to Human Rights Watch at least six children 138 A hospital in the area confirmed that it had received 15 bodies on the same day 139 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that on 1 June a 102 year old man was killed along with his whole family in a village in Hama province 140 According to Reuters 1 878 people were killed in Syria by IS during the last six months of 2014 most of them civilians 141 During its occupation of Mosul IS implemented a sharia school curriculum which banned the teaching of art music national history literature and Christianity Although Charles Darwin s theory of evolution has never been taught in Iraqi schools that subject was also banned from the school curriculum Patriotic songs were declared blasphemous and orders were given to remove certain pictures from school textbooks 142 143 144 145 Iraqi parents largely boycotted schools in which the new curriculum was introduced 146 After capturing cities in Iraq IS issued guidelines on how to wear clothes and veils IS warned women in the city of Mosul to wear full face veils or face severe punishment 147 A cleric told Reuters in Mosul that IS gunmen had ordered him to read out the warning in his mosque when worshippers gathered IS ordered the faces of both male and female mannequins to be covered in an order which also banned the use of naked mannequins 148 In Raqqa the group used its two battalions of female fighters in the city to enforce compliance by women with its strict laws on individual conduct 149 IS released 16 notes labelled Contract of the City a set of rules aimed at civilians in Nineveh One rule stipulated that women should stay at home and not go outside unless necessary Another rule said that stealing would be punished by amputation 150 151 In addition to banning the sale and use of alcohol IS banned the sale and use of cigarettes and hookah pipes It also banned music and songs in cars at parties in shops and in public as well as photographs of people in shop windows 152 According to The Economist the group also adopted certain practices seen in Saudi Arabia including the establishment of religious police to root out vice and enforce attendance at daily prayers the widespread use of capital punishment and the destruction of Christian churches and non Sunni mosques or their conversion to other uses 153 IS carried out executions on both men and women who were accused of various acts and found guilty of crimes against Islam such as sodomy 154 adultery usage and possession of contraband rape blasphemy witchcraft 155 renouncing Islam and murder Before the accused were executed their charges were read to them and the spectators Executions take various forms including stoning to death crucifixions beheadings burning people alive and throwing people from tall buildings 156 157 158 159 The Islamic State in Iraq frequently carried out mass executions in Mosul and Hawija The Islamic State militants were accused of using civilian residents of towns as human shields 160 The Telegraph reported that Extremist fighters are deliberately hiding among civilian buildings and residents to try to prevent strikes 161 162 Civil rights activist told ARA News that ISIS militants prevent the people of Manbij and Jarablus from leaving their hometowns despite the fierce airstrikes by Russian warplanes 163 The use of human shields and executions of civilians who tried to flee continued in Iraq right through until the group lost is final major urban territory there after its defeat in the Battle for Mosul in July 2017 164 In August 2019 the terror group claimed responsibility of the suicide bomb attack in a crowded wedding hall in Kabul It marked one of the most devastating attacks on civilians in years of conflict and terror where nearly 63 people died and more than 180 were wounded 165 Child soldiers edit See also Military use of children According to a report by the magazine Foreign Policy children as young as six are recruited or kidnapped and sent to military and religious training camps where they practice beheading with dolls and are indoctrinated with the religious views of IS 166 Children are used as human shields on front lines and to provide blood transfusions for Islamic State soldiers 166 according to Shelly Whitman of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative The second installment of a Vice News documentary about IS focused on how the group is specifically grooming children for the future A spokesman told VICE News that those under the age of 15 go to sharia camp to learn about religion while those older than 16 can go to military training camp 166 Children are also used for propaganda According to a UN report In mid August IS entered a cancer hospital in Mosul forced at least two sick children to hold the IS flag and posted the pictures on the internet Misty Buswell a Save the Children representative working with refugees in Jordan said It s not an exaggeration to say we could lose a whole generation of children to trauma 167 A UN report indicated that at least 89 children mostly from the ages of 12 to 16 had been killed fighting for the Islamic State in 2015 39 of which died in suicide bombing attacks 168 Der Spiegel estimated in 2016 that 1 500 boys were serving as child soldiers for IS 166 It was reported that on 12 March 2017 IS used 6 child suicide bombers against the Syrian Army soldiers besieged in Deir ez Zor 169 Sexual violence and slavery edit Further information Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency and Slavery in 21st century Islamism See also Islamic views on slavery Ma malakat aymanukum Raptio and Wartime sexual violence The sexual violence which was perpetrated by IS included its use of rape as a weapon of war 170 instituting forced marriages to its fighters 171 and trading women and girls as sex slaves 172 There are many reports of sexual abuse and enslavement in IS controlled areas of women and girls predominantly from the minority Christian and Yazidi communities 173 174 Fighters were told that they were free to have sex with or rape non Muslim captive women 175 Haleh Esfandiari from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has highlighted the abuse of local women by IS militants after they have captured an area They usually take the older women to a makeshift slave market and try to sell them The younger girls are raped or married off to fighters she said adding It s based on temporary marriages and once these fighters have had sex with these young girls they just pass them on to other fighters 176 The three winners of a June 2015 Quran memorization contest in Mosul were given sex slaves as prizes 177 The capture of Iraqi cities by the group in June 2014 was accompanied by an upsurge in crimes against women including kidnap and rape 178 179 180 According to Martin Williams in The Citizen some hard line Salafists apparently regard extramarital sex with multiple partners as a legitimate form of holy war and it is difficult to reconcile this with a religion where some adherents insist that women must be covered from head to toe with only a narrow slit for the eyes 181 As of August 2015 update the trade in sex slaves appeared to remain restricted to Yazidi women and girls 172 It has reportedly become a recruiting technique to attract men from conservative Muslim societies where dating and casual sex are not allowed 172 Nazand Begikhani said of the Yazidi victims These women have been treated like cattle They have been subjected to physical and sexual violence including systematic rape and sex slavery They ve been exposed in markets in Mosul and in Raqqa Syria carrying price tags 182 According to UN Reports the price list for IS sex slaves ranged from 40 to 160 US dollars The younger the slave the more expensive Girls and boys between the age 1 9 were referred to as the most expensive with the cheapest being women between 40 and 50 years old 183 According to another source the price of a slave equals the price of an AK 47 184 A United Nations report issued on 2 October 2014 based on 500 interviews with witnesses said that IS took 450 500 women and girls to Iraq s Nineveh region in August where 150 unmarried girls and women predominantly from the Yazidi and Christian communities were reportedly transported to Syria either to be given to ISIL fighters as a reward or to be sold as sex slaves 174 In mid October the UN confirmed that 5 000 7 000 Yazidi women and children had been abducted by IS and sold into slavery 185 In November 2014 The New York Times reported on the accounts given by five who escaped IS of their captivity and abuse 186 In December 2014 the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights announced that IS had killed over 150 women and girls in Fallujah who refused to participate in sexual jihad 187 Non Muslim women have reportedly been married off to fighters against their will IS claims the women provide the new converts and children necessary to spread IS s control 188 Shortly after the death of US hostage Kayla Mueller was confirmed on 10 February 2015 189 several media outlets reported that the US intelligence community believed she may have been given as a wife to an IS fighter 190 191 192 In August 2015 it was confirmed that she had been forced into marriage 193 to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi who raped her repeatedly 194 193 195 The Mueller family was informed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI that al Baghdadi had sexually abused Ms Mueller and that Ms Mueller had also been tortured 195 Abu Sayyaf s widow Umm Sayyaf confirmed that it was her husband who had been Mueller s primary abuser 196 In its digital magazine Dabiq IS explicitly claimed religious justification for enslaving Yazidi women 197 198 199 According to The Wall Street Journal IS appeals to apocalyptic beliefs and claims justification by a Hadith that they interpret as portraying the revival of slavery as a precursor to the end of the world 200 IS appeals to the hadith and Quran when claiming the right to enslave and rape captive non Muslim women 197 201 202 According to Dabiq enslaving the families of the kuffar and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Sharia s that if one were to deny or mock he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Quran and the narration of the Prophet and thereby apostatizing from Islam Captured Yazidi women and children are divided among the fighters who captured them with one fifth taken as a tax 202 203 IS has received widespread criticism from Muslim scholars and others in the Muslim world for using part of the Quran to derive a ruling in isolation rather than considering the entire Quran and hadith 197 201 202 According to Mona Siddiqui IS s narrative may well be wrapped up in the familiar language of jihad and fighting in the cause of Allah but it amounts to little more than destruction of anything and anyone who doesn t agree with them she describes IS as reflecting a lethal mix of violence and sexual power and a deeply flawed view of manhood 188 Dabiq describes this large scale enslavement of non Muslims as probably the first since the abandonment of Shariah law 202 203 In an article in a 2015 issue of the Islamic State magazine Dabiq quoted by author Graeme Wood someone calling herself Umm Summayah al Muhajirah indignantly berated supporters of the Islamic State who had denied the use of slavery by Islamic State The opponents of the Islamic State dare to extend their tongues with false rumours and accusations so as to disfigure the great Shariah ruling and pure prophetic Sunnah titled saby enslavement of girls After all this saby becomes fornication and tasarri concubinage becomes rape If only we d heard these falsehoods from the kuffar infidels who are ignorant of our religion Instead we hear it from those associated with our Ummah So I say in astonishment Are our people awake or asleep But what really alarmed me was that some of the Islamic State supporters may Allah forgive them rushed to defend the Islamic State by denying the matter as if the soldiers of the Khilafah had committed a mistake or evil 204 nbsp YJE are women fighters trained by the Kurdish Workers Party guerillas to defend themselves against Islamist extremists In late 2014 IS released a pamphlet that focused on the treatment of female slaves 205 It claims that the Quran allows fighters to have sex with captives including adolescent girls and to beat slaves as discipline The pamphlet s guidelines also allow fighters to trade slaves including for sex as long as they have not been impregnated by their owners 205 206 Charlie Winter a researcher at the counter extremist think tank Quilliam described the pamphlet as abhorrent 206 207 In response to this document Abbas Barzegar a religion professor at Georgia State University said Muslims around the world find IS s alien interpretation of Islam grotesque and abhorrent 208 Muslim leaders and scholars from around the world have rejected the validity of IS s claims claiming that the reintroduction of slavery is un Islamic that they are required to protect People of the Scripture including Christians Jews Muslims and Yazidis and that IS s fatwas are invalid due to their lack of religious authority and the fatwas inconsistency with Islam 209 210 The Independent reported in 2015 that the usage of Yazidi sex slaves had created ongoing friction among fighters within IS Sajad Jiyad a Research Fellow and Associate Member at the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform told the newspaper that many IS supporters and fighters had been in denial about the trafficking of kidnapped Yazidi women until a Dabiq article justifying the practice was published 211 212 The New York Times said in August 2015 that t he systematic rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority has become deeply enmeshed in the organization and the radical theology of the Islamic State in the year since the group announced it was reviving slavery as an institution 172 The article claims that IS is not merely exonerating but sacralising rape and illustrated this with the testimony of escapees One 15 year old victim said that while she was being assaulted her rapist kept telling me this is ibadah a 12 year old victim related how her assailant claimed that by raping me he is drawing closer to Allah 172 and one adult prisoner told how when she challenged her captor about repeatedly raping a 12 year old she was met with the retort No she s not a little girl she s a slave and she knows exactly how to have sex and having sex with her pleases Allah 172 In July 2016 it was reported by an AP investigation that IS was using mobile apps like Telegram to sell their sex slaves and identify the slaves of other IS members at checkpoints 213 In 2016 the Commission for International Justice and Accountability said they had identified 34 senior IS members who were instrumental in the systematic sex slave trade and planned to prosecute them after the end of hostilities 214 Slave trade edit See also History of slavery Islamic State slave trade Yazidi genocide Sexual slavery and reproductive violence Sexual slavery Middle East Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency Islamic views 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