Report Details Massive Civilian Casualties in Iraq Over 21 Month Period

Nearly 20,000 civilians were killed and 3.2 million displaced in Iraq in just under two years, a count the United Nations calls “staggering.” Their new report, released today, details the absolutely horrific toll which the battle with ISIS is taking on Iraq’s population– prompting some to call the crimes “genocide.”

The numbers are grim:

  • 18,802 civilians killed
  • 36,245 civilians injured
  • 3.2 million civilians displaced

The report notes the counts could be considerably higher.

Most of this violence stems from the so-called Islamic State, which has taken large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, declaring an Islamic caliphate.

“The so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) continues to commit systematic and widespread violence and abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law. These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide,” the report states.

Car bombs and suicide bombers have been the most deadly for civilians, though mass killings by beheading, bulldozing, or fire were also common.

The fate of those who survive may be worse, as CNN reports:

The report noted that ISIS continued to target ethnic and religious minorities, such as the Yazidis, systematically persecuting them with the apparent goal of suppressing, permanently expelling or destroying the groups.

In the report, the United Nations estimated that ISIS currently holds about 3,500 slaves and continues to subject women and children to sexual violence, particularly in the form of sexual slavery.

The slaves, mainly women and children, came primarily from the persecuted Yazidi community, but a number hailed from other ethnic and religious minorities, it said.

Yazidi activists have previously told CNN of similar numbers of the community being abducted by the group.

The report said it had verified reports that 800 to 900 children in the ISIS-held city of Mosul had been abducted by the terror group for religious education and military training.

As ISIS spreads its reach, it conscripts children as sex slaves or future soldiers for their extremist cause.

The report also details Sharia courts and brutal, barbaric punishments for those found guilty of committing a crime against Islam.

The report said that ISIS targeted those perceived to be opposed to its ideology and rule; people affiliated with the government, including police officers and public officials; doctors; lawyers; journalists; and tribal and religious leaders.

“This report lays bare the enduring suffering of civilians in Iraq and 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,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The report says the crimes of ISIS are “possibly genocide.” Regardless of the definition, the ongoing atrocity has been massive and may get worse before it gets better.

“Despite their steady losses to pro government forces, the scourge of ISIL continues to kill, maim and displace Iraqi civilians in the thousands and to cause untold suffering,” said Jan Kubis,  the secretary-general’s special representative in Iraq.

 

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