FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN

ISIS JUGGERNAUT THREATENS 'EXTINCTION' FOR IRAQ MINORITIES

Report cites 'summary executions, torture' from 'unfolding catastrophe'

F. Michael Maloof

WASHINGTON – Because of the killing juggernaut that ISIS has become in Iraq, a startling new report says Iraqi minorities face extinction, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

The report from Minority Rights Group International says Iraq’s minorities are facing an “unfolding catastrophe” as a consequence of the ISIS onslaught.

In its report titled “From Crisis to Catastrophe: The situation of minorities in Iraq,” the MRGI said the ISIS sweep into Iraq is affecting such Iraqi minorities as Chaldo-Assyrians, Armenian Christians, Turkmen, Yezidis, Kaka’is, Shabaks, Sabean-Mandaeans, Baha’is, Faili Kurds, Black Iraqis and Romas.

In the first nine months of 2014, the report said, more than 12,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq, and the minorities have been among the primary targets for ISIS, also known as Islamic State, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and ISIL, the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant.

“With terrifying speed, ISIS is completing a process of ethnic cleansing that has been underway for years,” the report said.

“Many minority communities have been reduced in size by emigration and killing to the point that they are now in danger of extinction,” according to MRGI’s executive director, Mark Lattimer.

The report said that in the areas controlled by ISIS, minorities have been subject to “summary executions, forced conversions, kidnappings, torture, sexual violence and destruction of property.”

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At least half a million have been forced to flee Ninewa, home to minority communities for thousands of years, with little more than the clothes on their backs.

“Since minorities generally do not have their own militias or tribal protection structures like the majority groups in society, they are especially vulnerable,” Lattimer said.

“The federal government of Iraq has shown that it is either unable or unwilling to protect the safety of minorities,” he said. “In the vast majority of cases, investigations are not properly conducted and the perpetrators of attacks go unpunished, often with indications of official complicity.”

The report pointed out that minorities remaining in Iraq live in “constant fear” for their safety.

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