According to a report released by the United Nations on Tuesday, from January 1, 2014, to October 31, 2015, at least 18,802 people were killed and 36,245 were injured in acts of terror carried out by Daesh.
The civilian death toll in Iraq is “staggering,” the UN report stated.
It documented various methods the terrorists had employed against Iraqis, including public decapitations, running people over with bulldozers, burning them alive and throwing them off buildings.
Such acts are “systematic and widespread... abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law,” the report said.
“These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.”
According to UN documents, Daesh (ISIS - ISIL or so-called Islamic State terrorist group) had also carried out numerous other atrocities including a wide range of human rights abuses such as enslaving some 3,500 people, mainly women and children from the Izadi (Yazidi) community, kidnapped in the summer of 2014, who were frequently coerced into becoming sex slaves for the militants.