ISIS militants are selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, using them as suicide bombers and killing others by crucifixion or burying them alive, a watchdog has said.
The
children, who are often from the Yazidi sect or Christian communities, Shi'ites
and Sunnis, are being tortured and murdered, the U.N. Committee on the
Rights of the Child said.
A report released on Wednesday revealed a host of
horrifying outcomes for the children kidnapped by the Islamic militants,
including boys under-18 being used as bomb makers, informants or human
shields to protect facilities against U.S.-led airstrikes. Girls are being sold
as sex slaves, while children - often with learning difficulties - are being
used as suicide bombers. Others are
simply being murdered, the report says.
'We are
really deeply concerned at torture and murder of those children, especially
those belonging to minorities, committee expert Renate Winter said.
'The scope
of the problem is huge.'
The U.N.
body, which reviewed Iraq's record for the first time since 1998, denounced
'the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic
minorities by the so-called ISIL [ISIS]'. This
included 'several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of
beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive'.
No comments:
Post a Comment