Over 600 Women, Children under ISIS Captivity: Iraqi Official

Over 600 Women, Children under ISIS Captivity: Iraqi Official
Sun Sep 4, 2016 18:29:48

More than 600 Shiite Turkmen women and children remain under the control of the ISIS terrorists in Iraq, a human rights official in Iraq said.

Masrour Aswad, a member of the High Commission of Human Rights in Iraq, said that international organizations are not paying enough attention to free these hostages, Kurdistan 24 reported.

“We have acquired information that ISIS has jailed some of them in a military base in Mosul, but the federal government of Iraq and organizations are silent,” Aswad said.

The women in captivity are often used as slaves and the children trained for suicide attacks.

He mentioned that they had met with some of the women rescued from ISIL, and they revealed some sensitive information about the whereabouts of many prisoned women in ISIL-controlled territories.

“They have revealed information about the hostages and asked us to conceal their names and profile,” Aswad added.

Additionally, he stated only 11 of the Shiite Turkmen hostages had been rescued from the terrorist group so far.

Hassan Toran, the Deputy Head of Turkmen Front and a member of the parliament of Iraq, criticized international organizations for not making enough efforts to rescue the hostages.

“Before, we had information about those hostages, and we knew that they were alive,” Toran reported.

“But now all our connections are lost, and nobody knows what happened to them,” the Deputy Head continued.

He believes that the government of Iraq must find a solution regarding the hostages especially after they are rescued.

In June 2014, ISIL took control of Mosul and large swaths of territories in the North of Iraq.

The group enslaved thousands of Kurdish Ezadi women and sold them as sex slaves in markets under their control, FNA reported.

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