This Might Be The Most Horrific Single Massacre ISIS Has Committed

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31Oct

This Might Be The Most Horrific Single Massacre ISIS Has Committed

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Warning: This article contains images and descriptions of extreme violence.

 

Islamic State militants drove 600 Shia, Christian, and Yazidi male prisoners into the middle of the desert, lined them up along the edge of a ravine, and executed them at point blank range, according to areport by Human Rights Watch released Thursday.

 

The inmates, taken from a local prison, were forced to count themselves as they lined up before members of the jihadist militant group opened fire on them with machine guns.

Human Rights Watch says it spoke to nine survivors of the massacre. They told the organization they made it out alive by rolling into the ravine and pretending to be dead, or were shielded by the bodies of other prisoners who fell on top of them.

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Islamic State kills 85 more members of Iraqi tribe
Raheem Salman and Ahmed Rasheed

November 1, 2014

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State has executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday, part of a mass killing campaign launched last week to break local resistance to the group's territorial advances. Tribal chief Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud told Reuters Islamic State had killed 50 members of Albu Nimr who were fleeing the group in Anbar province on Friday. A further 35 bodies were found in a mass grave, a security official said.

 

Islamic State has executed a total of more than 300 tribe members in the past few days, Ga'oud and the official said. The sustained bloodshed appears to demonstrate the group's resilience to the U.S. air strikes that have been targeting its fighters in Iraq and Syria.

 

Ga'oud said he had repeatedly asked the Shi'ite-led central government in Baghdad for arms but that his pleas were ignored. Albu Nimr had held out for weeks under siege by Islamic State, but finally ran low on ammunition, fuel and food.

 

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