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Islamic State Is Raping, Torturing And Burying Children Alive

February 6, 2015

The Islamic State is reported to have systematically raped, tortured, trafficked and killed children, according to a new report released by the United Nations. In its report, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said it abhorred and condemned “the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities by the so-called ISIL, including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive.” The Committee added that there is a “high number of children” who have been abducted by “the so-called ISIL”. Many of these children, the report says, are severely traumatised from witnessing the murder of their  parents and are then subjected to physical and sexual assault. Children of minorities in particular, the Committee said, have been paraded in markets with price tags and sold as slaves. Beyond the torture, rape and killing of children, the U.N. Committee said ISIL has been recruiting child soldiers and using them for attacks and propaganda videos. “We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them…


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