Source: BBC
The UN says violence suffered by civilians in Iraq “remains staggering”, with at least 18,800 killed between 1 January 2014 and 31 October 2015.
Some 3.2 million people have also been displaced internally over the same period, according to a new report.
The UN accuses so-called Islamic State of systematic and widespread violence, including holding some 3,500 mainly women and children as slaves.
Alleged abuses by troops, militiamen and Kurdish forces were also recorded.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Al Hussein said the report “starkly illustrates what Iraqi refugees are attempting to escape when they flee to Europe and other regions. This is the horror they face in their homelands”.
‘Gruesome spectacles’
The report, by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, is based on interviews with the displaced and direct testimony from victims, survivors or witnesses of rights abuses.
It says the figures of 18,802 civilians killed and 36,245 wounded between 1 January 2014 and 31 October 2015 could be much higher.
Image copyrightReutersDocumented cases of IS abuse in 2015
10 July: IS militants force victims to lie down in central Mosul in front of large crowd. A bulldozer is driven over them
4 June: Two young males and a 60-year-old man thrown from a building in Ninewa for alleged homosexual acts
1-2 August: IS militants allegedly kill 19 women in Mosul for refusing to have sex with fighters
21 June: Women offered as sex slaves to the top three winners of a Koran memorisation competition in Mosul
23 June: IS group video shows men placed in a car and hit by rocket-propelled grenade; men drowned in a cage; men decapitated with explosives
12-15 July: Four imams in Mosul accused by self-appointed IS court of conducting forbidden taraweeh Ramadan prayers. Shot in the head
Source: UN Report on the Protection on Civilians in the Armed Conflict in Iraq 1 May-31 October 2015
In particular, the figures from the conflict-torn western province of Anbar, much of which is held by IS, might not fully reflect the situation.
About half of the deaths were recorded in Baghdad province and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were the deadliest tactic used against civilians.
Nevertheless, the figures for civilian deaths are still significantly below those recorded at the height of the sectarian insurgency in Iraq in 2006 and 2007.
Categories: Iraq, Middle East, The Muslim Times, United Nations
Innalillahi wa inna ilahirajiiun====at least 18,800 killed between 1 January 2014 and 31 October 2015.==In Iraq alone—-how many people have killed if combine with Syria, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Sudan?
This is the result of practicing the ancient Islamic laws by most Muslim around the world. They still claim that Islam is a peaceful religion, most people do not believe. Good Muslim can not convince that Islam is a peaceful religion today. The reality is opposite.Millions people are suffering today.
Most Muslim scholars say that Islamic teaching is not the source of conflict, but extremist Muslim are wrong to apply the Islamic laws.Extremist Muslim have been corrupting Islam for their interest.
The true fact has shown that they follow the book of Hadith beside of Holy Al Quran. The book of Hadith command Muslim to kill Homosexual—apostasy, Blasphemer and infidel.
So, from my observation, as long as Muslim scholars around the world are reluctant to admit or confess that the pure or genuine Islamic teaching have been contaminated with ancient Arab tradition.
This terrible destruction will continue until Muslims scholars fix it. Muslim need to remove all violent Hadith from the book of Hadith.
I strongly urge my brother from Ahmadiyah to declare that the book of Hadith has been contaminated with some violent Hadith, and must be removed from the book of Hadith.
May Allah guide Muslim scholar around the world to the right path of Islam.
Was Salam
All love