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IS abused Kurdish children
Islamic State militants tortured and abused Kurdish children captured earlier this year near the northern Syrian town of Kobane, beating them with hoses and electric cables, an international rights group said on Tuesday.
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Beirut: Islamic State militants tortured and abused Kurdish children captured earlier this year near the northern Syrian town of Kobane, beating them with hoses and electric cables, an international rights group said on Tuesday.
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Human Rights Watch based its conclusions on interviews with several children who were among more than 150 Kurdish boys from Kobane abducted in late May as they were returning home after taking school exams in the city of Aleppo. It said around 50 of the Kurds escaped early in their captivity, while the rest were released in batches the last coming on Oct 29.
"Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, children have suffered the horrors of detention and torture, first by the Assad government and now by ISIS," said Human Rights Watch's Fred Abrahams. "This evidence of torture and abuse of children by ISIS underlines why no one should support their criminal enterprise."
Four of the children who were released told the New York-based rights group that they were held by the extremists in the northern Syrian town of Manbij. They described frequent abuse at the hands of the militants, who used a hose and electric cable to administer beatings.
Meanwhile, Islamic State has released at least 93 Syrian Kurds from the flashpoint town of Kobane who were kidnapped in February. They were among more than 160 Kurds abducted as they travelled east through Syria en route for Iraqi Kurdistan. The hostages were held in the jihadist stronghold of Raqa, accused of being members of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main Kurdish political party in Syria. It was unclear why they were freed, according to the Britain-based Observatory.The shooting of a Shiite religious leader outside a Sydney prayer hall appeared to have been influenced by the Islamic State movement, Australia's prime minister said.
Rasoul Al Mousawi, 47, was blasted with a shotgun in the face and shoulder in a drive-by shooting outside the Husainiyah Nabi Akram Centre in suburban Greenacre early on Monday. Prime Minister Tony. Abbott confirmed that authorities suspected the Islamic State movement was behind the shooting.
