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Turkey's Border War (Dispatch 1)
October 14, 2014 | 4:15 pm
Turkey has closed its border with Syria as Islamic State militants battle Kurdish forces in the Syrian border town of Kobane. Turkish checkpoints and tanks ensure that no one enters or exits the town, while nearby some of the 180,000 refugees who previously fled into Turkey watch helplessly as the fighting unfolds in front of them.
VICE News travelled to the Turkish side of the border as US airstrikes hit Islamic State positions in Kobane. As we watched alongside Kurds from both Syria and Turkey, they talked about Turkey's lack of support for the Kurds fighting in Kobane and provided updates on the battle.
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October 14, 2014 | 4:15 pm
Turkey has closed its border with Syria as Islamic State militants battle Kurdish forces in the Syrian border town of Kobane. Turkish checkpoints and tanks ensure that no one enters or exits the town, while nearby some of the 180,000 refugees who previously fled into Turkey watch helplessly as the fighting unfolds in front of them.
VICE News travelled to the Turkish side of the border as US airstrikes hit Islamic State positions in Kobane. As we watched alongside Kurds from both Syria and Turkey, they talked about Turkey's lack of support for the Kurds fighting in Kobane and provided updates on the battle.
https://news.vice.com/video/kurds-l...-border-wars-dispatch-1?utm_source=vicenewsfb
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Militias Fighting the Islamic State in Iraq Are Accused of Terrorizing Civilians
By Samuel Oakford
October 14, 2014 | 2:29 pm
In the shadow of the international military campaign against the Islamic State (IS), Shia militias are operating with impunity as they kidnap and murder hundreds of mostly-Sunni victims across the crumbling expanse of Iraq, according to researchers at Amnesty International.
In a report released Monday, investigators at the rights group compiled a litany of abuses in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Samarra, and Kirkuk that they attribute to Shia militias. The crimes range from mafia-like abductions to atrocities carried out in revenge for IS attacks.
The militias, who count tens of thousands of members among their ranks and are organized in military units, often operate with the tacit or overt consent of the government in Baghdad. Previously a scourge of American occupying forces and, at times, the regime of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, militias have been enlisted to take part in the government's shaky fight against IS. In many cases, they are seen wearing official uniforms belonging to Iraqi security forces and riding alongside them in patrols.
The group most familiar to Americans is likely the Baghdad-based Mahdi army of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Officially disbanded in 2008, Sadr's forces are once again active under the name Saraya al-Salam, or the "Peace Brigade."
Yazidi women captured by the Islamic State suffer terrible fate. Read more here.
Other groups, like the Badr Brigades, trace their roots to the 1980s, when they were first backed by the government of Shia-dominated Iran. The Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous), an offshoot of the Mahdi Army, is considered among the most powerful of the Shia militias, and reportedly maintains ties to members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
A spokesperson for Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq told reporters in June the militia's troops "are fighting side by side with the government's forces on all fronts," and openly admitted that they wore military uniforms, calling it "logical."
"There is a lot of close collaboration, these Shia militias are [sometimes] operating as formal Iraqi forces, wearing uniforms and driving military vehicles," Sunjeev Bery, Advocacy Director for Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, told VICE News. "It's difficult to know how much of the Iraqi central government's limited victories against ISIS are the result of the Shia militias, but they are a core part of the central government's strategy. That's what's most disturbing."
The case of Salem, a Baghdad businessman with nine children, illustrates the cynical approach of the militias. On the afternoon of July 15, Salem was reportedly kidnapped from a factory he owned about 20 miles from Baghdad. Salem's abductors contacted his family, and, after asking for $200,000, they eventually agreed on a $60,000 ransom in exchange for his freedom. Two weeks passed before his body was discovered among the corpses at Baghdad's morgue. "His head had been smashed and his hands were bound together with metal handcuffs," investigators wrote.
Video shows Islamic State recruits with US equipment at training camp in Iraq. Read more here.
Salem's family told Amnesty that he had been arrested two weeks earlier, along with his son and brother, by members of the police and army who appeared in military vehicles, accompanied by a Shia man wearing a mask. The man told them to pay $30,000, which they bargained down to $27,000. That time, Salem was released.
It's unclear if Salem's kidnappers in each instance were linked, or if the second group of abductors even knew of his capture weeks earlier.
"Once you let loose the militias again, how do you stop them?" Judith S. Yaphe, Middle East Project Director in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, told VICE News. "They are going to have an impact on the ability of the new government to negotiate, assuming it wants to, with Sunni leaders who may be wavering."
The families of other victims told Amnesty similar stories of militiamen demanding ransom payments that — even when paid — did nothing to forestall the death of their loved ones.
"Some militiamen are thieves as well as killers and try to get money from their victims' families, before killing them," a government official told Amnesty. "Those who are kidnapped by these have little chance of survival, no matter how much their families pay."
Though Sunni civilians have borne the brunt of the resurgent militias, abductions of Shia, Christians, and Kurdish civilians have also been documented. One Christian family said after being repeatedly targeted by militia members, they had no choice but to leave Iraq.
Kidnappers prefer Sunnis, however, if for no other reason than they can posthumously be labelled terrorists or IS-sympathizers without rousing suspicion.
Bery says families often refuse to approach authorities after kidnappings, worried that local police are in cahoots with the militias.
"They fear the local police will simply hand over the information the groups that carried out the abduction or crime in the first place," he said.
In Samarra, roughly 65 miles northwest of Baghdad, and where the Iraqi army in June repelled IS forces, Amnesty documented death squads that operated under the guise of security operations. Investigators counted at least 170 abductions of predominantly Sunni men since June. Amnesty researchers wrote that, on June 6 alone, "more than 30 were abducted from or near their homes, shot dead, and their bodies dumped nearby."
The Battle for Iraq. Watch the VICE News dispatches here.
One women told investigators that armed men driving three Hummers broke into her family's home early on the morning of June 6 and drove off with their 22-year-old son, along with a neighbor's son. When the mother tried to follow, the men shot at her. "We looked for them everywhere until the following day, when their bodies were found in a mosque nearby," she said. "My son had been shot twice in the head and once in the chest."
"They didn't even know my son's name; maybe they just took him because they were looking for young men and he was the only young man in our house," the woman told Amnesty.
In Basra, UN officials have documented a similar pattern of abductions and killings, where in a two-month period between June 23 and August 20, 19 Sunni men — all civilians — were killed, along with 19 who were injured in attacks. UN officials reported threats made against Sunni mosques, and bulbs illuminating the entryways to Sunni houses have reportedly been painted black, while other homes have been marked with the letter X.
In July, gunmen with suspected links to Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq murdered 29 women in a Baghdad building thought to be operating as a brothel.
"I'm afraid we are regressing back to the situation as it was seven or eight years ago, when this behavior was very widespread," another government official told Amnesty.
https://news.vice.com/article/milit...-in-iraq-are-accused-of-terrorizing-civilians
By Samuel Oakford
October 14, 2014 | 2:29 pm
In the shadow of the international military campaign against the Islamic State (IS), Shia militias are operating with impunity as they kidnap and murder hundreds of mostly-Sunni victims across the crumbling expanse of Iraq, according to researchers at Amnesty International.
In a report released Monday, investigators at the rights group compiled a litany of abuses in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Samarra, and Kirkuk that they attribute to Shia militias. The crimes range from mafia-like abductions to atrocities carried out in revenge for IS attacks.
The militias, who count tens of thousands of members among their ranks and are organized in military units, often operate with the tacit or overt consent of the government in Baghdad. Previously a scourge of American occupying forces and, at times, the regime of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, militias have been enlisted to take part in the government's shaky fight against IS. In many cases, they are seen wearing official uniforms belonging to Iraqi security forces and riding alongside them in patrols.
The group most familiar to Americans is likely the Baghdad-based Mahdi army of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Officially disbanded in 2008, Sadr's forces are once again active under the name Saraya al-Salam, or the "Peace Brigade."
Yazidi women captured by the Islamic State suffer terrible fate. Read more here.
Other groups, like the Badr Brigades, trace their roots to the 1980s, when they were first backed by the government of Shia-dominated Iran. The Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous), an offshoot of the Mahdi Army, is considered among the most powerful of the Shia militias, and reportedly maintains ties to members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
A spokesperson for Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq told reporters in June the militia's troops "are fighting side by side with the government's forces on all fronts," and openly admitted that they wore military uniforms, calling it "logical."
"There is a lot of close collaboration, these Shia militias are [sometimes] operating as formal Iraqi forces, wearing uniforms and driving military vehicles," Sunjeev Bery, Advocacy Director for Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, told VICE News. "It's difficult to know how much of the Iraqi central government's limited victories against ISIS are the result of the Shia militias, but they are a core part of the central government's strategy. That's what's most disturbing."
The case of Salem, a Baghdad businessman with nine children, illustrates the cynical approach of the militias. On the afternoon of July 15, Salem was reportedly kidnapped from a factory he owned about 20 miles from Baghdad. Salem's abductors contacted his family, and, after asking for $200,000, they eventually agreed on a $60,000 ransom in exchange for his freedom. Two weeks passed before his body was discovered among the corpses at Baghdad's morgue. "His head had been smashed and his hands were bound together with metal handcuffs," investigators wrote.
Video shows Islamic State recruits with US equipment at training camp in Iraq. Read more here.
Salem's family told Amnesty that he had been arrested two weeks earlier, along with his son and brother, by members of the police and army who appeared in military vehicles, accompanied by a Shia man wearing a mask. The man told them to pay $30,000, which they bargained down to $27,000. That time, Salem was released.
It's unclear if Salem's kidnappers in each instance were linked, or if the second group of abductors even knew of his capture weeks earlier.
"Once you let loose the militias again, how do you stop them?" Judith S. Yaphe, Middle East Project Director in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, told VICE News. "They are going to have an impact on the ability of the new government to negotiate, assuming it wants to, with Sunni leaders who may be wavering."
The families of other victims told Amnesty similar stories of militiamen demanding ransom payments that — even when paid — did nothing to forestall the death of their loved ones.
"Some militiamen are thieves as well as killers and try to get money from their victims' families, before killing them," a government official told Amnesty. "Those who are kidnapped by these have little chance of survival, no matter how much their families pay."
Though Sunni civilians have borne the brunt of the resurgent militias, abductions of Shia, Christians, and Kurdish civilians have also been documented. One Christian family said after being repeatedly targeted by militia members, they had no choice but to leave Iraq.
Kidnappers prefer Sunnis, however, if for no other reason than they can posthumously be labelled terrorists or IS-sympathizers without rousing suspicion.
Bery says families often refuse to approach authorities after kidnappings, worried that local police are in cahoots with the militias.
"They fear the local police will simply hand over the information the groups that carried out the abduction or crime in the first place," he said.
In Samarra, roughly 65 miles northwest of Baghdad, and where the Iraqi army in June repelled IS forces, Amnesty documented death squads that operated under the guise of security operations. Investigators counted at least 170 abductions of predominantly Sunni men since June. Amnesty researchers wrote that, on June 6 alone, "more than 30 were abducted from or near their homes, shot dead, and their bodies dumped nearby."
The Battle for Iraq. Watch the VICE News dispatches here.
One women told investigators that armed men driving three Hummers broke into her family's home early on the morning of June 6 and drove off with their 22-year-old son, along with a neighbor's son. When the mother tried to follow, the men shot at her. "We looked for them everywhere until the following day, when their bodies were found in a mosque nearby," she said. "My son had been shot twice in the head and once in the chest."
"They didn't even know my son's name; maybe they just took him because they were looking for young men and he was the only young man in our house," the woman told Amnesty.
In Basra, UN officials have documented a similar pattern of abductions and killings, where in a two-month period between June 23 and August 20, 19 Sunni men — all civilians — were killed, along with 19 who were injured in attacks. UN officials reported threats made against Sunni mosques, and bulbs illuminating the entryways to Sunni houses have reportedly been painted black, while other homes have been marked with the letter X.
In July, gunmen with suspected links to Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq murdered 29 women in a Baghdad building thought to be operating as a brothel.
"I'm afraid we are regressing back to the situation as it was seven or eight years ago, when this behavior was very widespread," another government official told Amnesty.
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Yazidi Women Captured by the Islamic State Suffer Terrible Fate
By Samuel Oakford
October 12, 2014 | 6:30 pm
More than two months after being captured by the Islamic State in Iraq, Yazidi women continue to be subjected to forced conversions and marriages, rape and assault, according to investigators at Human Rights Watch.
The UN estimates at least 500,000 Yazidis fled their homes after the Islamic State (IS) launched a desert blitzkrieg around Mt. Sinjar in early August. Thousands who were unable to reach Kurdish controlled regions of Northern Iraq are believed to have been captured by the Sunni militants. UN officials previously told VICE News the number of women and girls captured by the Islamic State could total as many 2,500.
Researchers with Human Rights Watch interviewed 76 Yazidis who had been driven to Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as two current female detainees via telephone, and sixteen individuals who had escaped from IS.
Witnesses described IS fighters literally picking women out from among prisoners for their personal use. "You are mine," one teenager named Adlee recalled a "big bearded man" telling her, before leading her to an IS vehicle. Adlee was taken with another girl to Fallujah, a mere 43 miles from Baghdad, where she was beaten and slapped until they both "surrendered."
Iraq's Yazidis who fled to refugee camps say they will never go home. Read more here.
After running away from her captor and hiding for nearly three weeks, Adlee made it to a Kurdish-controlled area, where investigators heard her testimony. Though she noted locations and the presence of other prisoners, Adlee, like many other Yazidis, only referred obliquely to sexual violence.
"As much as we could, we didn't let them touch our bodies," said Adlee. "Everything they did, they did by force."
Even returning to their families presents yet another risk for female escapees, Tirana Hassan, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch's Emergencies Division, told VICE News.
"The biggest taboo is not being captured, it is being [sexually] assaulted," said Hassan. "The Yezidis are a small, conservative community and women will go great lengths to ensure this is private, to make sure they are not ostracized by the community. Virginity is a very important concept."
A 15-year-old girl named Rewshe told investigators she was held for three weeks before being transported to Raqqa, Syria, along with some 200 women and girls. Soon after, 20 of the prisoners were taken away, reportedly after being sold to a group of militants.
Two days after she arrived in Raqqa, Rewshe was sold, along with her 14-year-old sister, to a militant. The man, a Palestinian member of IS, told her she had cost him $1,000. He quickly sold her sister to another militant and took Rewshe to his apartment. After attempting to rape her, Rewshe was able to escape as the man dozed.
But for every story relayed to rights groups and UN officials concentrated in Erbil and other Kurdish cities, many more — and particularly cases so heinous that IS allows few witnesses — go unreported.
The Islamic State: Watch the entire VICE News documentary here.
Escapees described girls "as young as 12" being taken away and made to enter into marriages with fighters. "They married us; we had no choice," one escapee recounted a group of girls telling her when they were briefly allowed back into the Mosul prison where they had been held, before disappearing.
In a handful of situations, Yazidis have been able to escape detention with the help of locals. One group of five sisters, ages 10 to 24, fled bondage with assistance from Sunni families, who offered them refuge for three weeks before they were able to flee to a safer area.
"They relied on the kindness of strangers," Hassan said. "In two instances, they were picked up by individuals who understood they were being held against their will, and understood they were Yazidis."
https://news.vice.com/article/yazidi-women-captured-by-the-islamic-state-suffer-terrible-fate
By Samuel Oakford
October 12, 2014 | 6:30 pm
More than two months after being captured by the Islamic State in Iraq, Yazidi women continue to be subjected to forced conversions and marriages, rape and assault, according to investigators at Human Rights Watch.
The UN estimates at least 500,000 Yazidis fled their homes after the Islamic State (IS) launched a desert blitzkrieg around Mt. Sinjar in early August. Thousands who were unable to reach Kurdish controlled regions of Northern Iraq are believed to have been captured by the Sunni militants. UN officials previously told VICE News the number of women and girls captured by the Islamic State could total as many 2,500.
Researchers with Human Rights Watch interviewed 76 Yazidis who had been driven to Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as two current female detainees via telephone, and sixteen individuals who had escaped from IS.
Witnesses described IS fighters literally picking women out from among prisoners for their personal use. "You are mine," one teenager named Adlee recalled a "big bearded man" telling her, before leading her to an IS vehicle. Adlee was taken with another girl to Fallujah, a mere 43 miles from Baghdad, where she was beaten and slapped until they both "surrendered."
Iraq's Yazidis who fled to refugee camps say they will never go home. Read more here.
After running away from her captor and hiding for nearly three weeks, Adlee made it to a Kurdish-controlled area, where investigators heard her testimony. Though she noted locations and the presence of other prisoners, Adlee, like many other Yazidis, only referred obliquely to sexual violence.
"As much as we could, we didn't let them touch our bodies," said Adlee. "Everything they did, they did by force."
Even returning to their families presents yet another risk for female escapees, Tirana Hassan, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch's Emergencies Division, told VICE News.
"The biggest taboo is not being captured, it is being [sexually] assaulted," said Hassan. "The Yezidis are a small, conservative community and women will go great lengths to ensure this is private, to make sure they are not ostracized by the community. Virginity is a very important concept."
A 15-year-old girl named Rewshe told investigators she was held for three weeks before being transported to Raqqa, Syria, along with some 200 women and girls. Soon after, 20 of the prisoners were taken away, reportedly after being sold to a group of militants.
Two days after she arrived in Raqqa, Rewshe was sold, along with her 14-year-old sister, to a militant. The man, a Palestinian member of IS, told her she had cost him $1,000. He quickly sold her sister to another militant and took Rewshe to his apartment. After attempting to rape her, Rewshe was able to escape as the man dozed.
But for every story relayed to rights groups and UN officials concentrated in Erbil and other Kurdish cities, many more — and particularly cases so heinous that IS allows few witnesses — go unreported.
The Islamic State: Watch the entire VICE News documentary here.
Escapees described girls "as young as 12" being taken away and made to enter into marriages with fighters. "They married us; we had no choice," one escapee recounted a group of girls telling her when they were briefly allowed back into the Mosul prison where they had been held, before disappearing.
In a handful of situations, Yazidis have been able to escape detention with the help of locals. One group of five sisters, ages 10 to 24, fled bondage with assistance from Sunni families, who offered them refuge for three weeks before they were able to flee to a safer area.
"They relied on the kindness of strangers," Hassan said. "In two instances, they were picked up by individuals who understood they were being held against their will, and understood they were Yazidis."
https://news.vice.com/article/yazidi-women-captured-by-the-islamic-state-suffer-terrible-fate
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ISIS Declares Itself Pro-Slavery
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
A Yazidi refugee camp in Dohuk, Iraq.
Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
ISIS's English-language publication Dabiq has announced that ISIS is enslaving women and children of the Yazidi minority group, writing that not enslaving so-called pagans would constitute apostasy. From The Atlantic:
In the article, "The Revival of Slavery Before the Hour," the magazine stated that "the enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers," adding that, "the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations."
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
A Yazidi refugee camp in Dohuk, Iraq.
Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
ISIS's English-language publication Dabiq has announced that ISIS is enslaving women and children of the Yazidi minority group, writing that not enslaving so-called pagans would constitute apostasy. From The Atlantic:
In the article, "The Revival of Slavery Before the Hour," the magazine stated that "the enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers," adding that, "the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations."
Referring to the Yazidis as "pagans" and "infidels," the article said, "Their creed is so deviant from the truth that even cross-worshipping Christians for ages considered them devil worshippers and Satanists, as is recorded in accounts of Westerners and Orientalists who encountered them or studied them."
Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation yesterday. From the firsthand accounts in the report, captive women and girls are sold as slaves/wives to ISIS fighters, and boys are sent to be trained as soldiers. Some men are held prisoner as well, though it's not clear to what end. All are forced to convert to Islam.
ISIS's attack on Yazidi territory in Iraq provoked the United States to intervene—to prevent genocide, it said. And while ISIS's advances in the region were ultimately halted, tens of thousands of Yazidis (at minimum) have been made into refugees, while hundreds and perhaps thousands remain captives in the Islamic State.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ublication_defends_practice.html?wpsrc=fol_fvHuman Rights Watch released a report on the situation yesterday. From the firsthand accounts in the report, captive women and girls are sold as slaves/wives to ISIS fighters, and boys are sent to be trained as soldiers. Some men are held prisoner as well, though it's not clear to what end. All are forced to convert to Islam.
ISIS's attack on Yazidi territory in Iraq provoked the United States to intervene—to prevent genocide, it said. And while ISIS's advances in the region were ultimately halted, tens of thousands of Yazidis (at minimum) have been made into refugees, while hundreds and perhaps thousands remain captives in the Islamic State.
Wasn't there a handful of nikkas on the coli riding for "The Black Flag Gang"? The black man have no business mixing up with Islam and Arabs. Muslims are just as bad as the CAC.ISIS Declares Itself Pro-Slavery
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
A Yazidi refugee camp in Dohuk, Iraq.
Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
ISIS's English-language publication Dabiq has announced that ISIS is enslaving women and children of the Yazidi minority group, writing that not enslaving so-called pagans would constitute apostasy. From The Atlantic:
In the article, "The Revival of Slavery Before the Hour," the magazine stated that "the enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers," adding that, "the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations."
Referring to the Yazidis as "pagans" and "infidels," the article said, "Their creed is so deviant from the truth that even cross-worshipping Christians for ages considered them devil worshippers and Satanists, as is recorded in accounts of Westerners and Orientalists who encountered them or studied them."http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ublication_defends_practice.html?wpsrc=fol_fv
Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation yesterday. From the firsthand accounts in the report, captive women and girls are sold as slaves/wives to ISIS fighters, and boys are sent to be trained as soldiers. Some men are held prisoner as well, though it's not clear to what end. All are forced to convert to Islam.
ISIS's attack on Yazidi territory in Iraq provoked the United States to intervene—to prevent genocide, it said. And while ISIS's advances in the region were ultimately halted, tens of thousands of Yazidis (at minimum) have been made into refugees, while hundreds and perhaps thousands remain captives in the Islamic State.
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these guys are something else....hypocrites at the minimal.