ISIS is ethnically cleansing the Yazidi population but they're hardly the only one
Perhaps the most vivid and disturbing evidence that the Iraqi government simply does not share America’s core values emerged on Feb. 6. In a grainy video posted on YouTube, a three-minute horror show plays out on the front lines somewhere in Iraq. Iraqi military officers and presumably Shiite militiamen — dressed in black, skull-adorned “Sons of Anarchy” shirts — crowd an ambulance emblazoned with the Iraqi state seal. Inside, a blindfolded and hog-tied man in military fatigues pleads for mercy as the Iraqi vigilantes beat him over the head, taunting him with expletives.
“We will f— your sisters,” they shout.
“No, God,” the prisoner weeps.
One of the vigilantes picks up a metal toolbox and slams it down on the crying man, as others enter the ambulance to beat and kick the helpless prisoner. A minute into the video, the man is dragged out of the ambulance and onto the ground, still blindfolded, arms bound behind his back. A dozen fighters surround him and begin kicking him until he lies motionless, blood dripping from his head. With some yelling “enough,” a man in camouflaged trousers walks up to the prisoner and beats him over the head repeatedly with a sandal, a gesture of monumental insult. Another man, also in camouflaged trousers, leaps up twice and lands with his full weight on the detainee’s skull. A third man, in full military uniform, kicks and punches the hemorrhaging man, whose blood spills across the sand below.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/19/irans-shiite-militias-are-running-amok-in-iraq/
Assad is mass murdering Syrians
Syrian regime document trove shows evidence of 'industrial scale' killing of detainees
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/evidence-industrial-scale-killing-syria-war-crimes
Central Africa Republic has had & at great risk for future genocide as well. The Syria-Iraq situation is very sad -- a complex situation but I hope the US avoids applying double standards here. Iraq or Syria have illegitimate, corrupt, & oppressive governments that are engaging in ethnically cleansing themselves.
It saddens me very deeply the entirety of the situation that I actually very deeply want to solve & while I don't have the easy answers I hope people are very careful for what they advocate for but you have tens of thousands in displaced refugee camps without food, water, or care (children have frozen to death in the winter). KRG have handled the overall situation very admirable & have taken in numerous refugees. The crisis is unimaginable with the atrocities, ethnically cleansing, & other human rights violations.
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