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IS ‘enslaves’ thousands of Yezidi women and children: UN

 

BAGHDAD: According to UN Assistant Mission based here, IS has enslaved some 3,500 people (mostly women and children of Yezidi community), in Northern Iraq.  

UN has said that it had confirmed reports that on 21st June, 2015 around 850 children were rounded up in Mosul and abducted for military training. Those who refused were raped, tortured and flogged.

UN has also claimed to harbor detailing evidence of executions by beheading, shooting and burning alive.

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.