Killing of captives by ISIL

Killing of captives by ISIL refers here to killing by beheading, crucifixion, shooting, throat slitting, or killing by other means of military captives or other prisoners by the group, carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

ISIL have released a number of propaganda/publicity videos to present the beheading of captives or shooting of captives. Other videos and photos show people being crucified and later dying in part or fully due to the crusifiction itself.

Military captives

By June 2014, according to United Nations reports, ISIL had killed hundreds of prisoners of war[1] and over 1,000 civilians.[2][3][4] Specific incidents involving the killing of military prisoners including the mass killing of up to 250 Syrian Army soldiers near Tabqa Air base,[1] and killings that took place in Camp Speicher (1,095–1,700 Iraqi soldiers shot and "thousands" more "missing")[5][6] and the Shaer gas field (200 Syrian soldiers shot).[7] ISIL was reported to have beheaded about 100 foreign fighters as deserters who tried to leave Raqqa.[8]

Muath al-Kasasbeh, a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot whose F-16 fighter aircraft crashed near Raqqa, Syria, on 24 December 2014 during the military intervention against ISIL, was captured by ISIL and on 3 February 2015 the Islamic State released a video showing al-Kasasbeh being burned to death while trapped inside a cage.[9]

Civilian captives

Among the known killings of religious and minority group civilians carried out by ISIL are those in the villages and towns of Quiniyeh (70–90 Yazidis killed), Hardan (60 Yazidis killed), Sinjar (200–500 Yazidis killed), Ramadi Jabal (60–70 Yazidis killed), Dhola (50 Yazidis killed), Khana Sor (100 Yazidis killed), Hardan (250–300 Yazidis killed), al-Shimal (dozens of Yazidis killed), Khocho (400 Yazidis killed and 1,000 abducted), Jadala (14 Yadizis killed)[10] and Beshir (700 Shia Turkmen killed),[11] and others committed near Mosul (670 Shia inmates of the Badush prison killed),[11] and in Tal Afar prison, Iraq (200 Yazidis killed for refusing conversion).[10] The UN estimated that 5,000 Yazidis were killed by ISIL during the takeover of parts of northern Iraq in August 2014.[12]

ISIL has tortured and murdered local journalists,[13][14] creating what Reporters Without Borders calls "news blackholes" in areas controlled by ISIL. ISIL fighters have reportedly been given written directions to kill or capture journalists.[15]

ISIL has also killed aid workers.

See also

References

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