Amnesty uncovers ‘gruesome evidence’ of ethnic cleansing in Iraq

The human rights organisation says IS is carrying out war crimes, including mass summary killings and abductions, against ethnic and religious minorities in the country. “The Islamic State is carrying out despicable crimes and has transformed rural areas of Sinjar into blood-soaked killing fields in its brutal campaign to obliterate all trace of non- Arabs and non-Sunni Muslims,” said Amnesty’s senior crisis response advisor –