ODFS Director condemns ongoing ISIS brutality in Syra
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
ISIS Shot, Stoned And Beheaded Over 2,000 Off The Battlefield In Syria: Monitor
REUTERS
Ultra-radical Islamic State insurgents have killed at least 2,154 people off the battlefield in Syria since the end of June when the group declared a caliphate in territory it controls, a Syrian human rights monitor said on Tuesday.
The killings of mostly Syrians included deaths by beheading, stoning or gunshots in non-combat situations, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, urging the United Nations Security Council to act.
"We continue in our calls to the U.N. Security Council for urgent action to stop the ongoing murder against the sons of the Syrian people despite the deafness of members to the screams of pain of the Syrian people," it said in a statement.
Islamic State, which also holds tracts of land in neighboring Iraq, is an offshoot of al Qaeda and has set up its own courts in towns and villages to administer what it describes as Islamic law before carrying out the killings.
The Observatory, which tracks the conflict using sources on the ground, said its figure included combatants, civilians and also 126 Islamic State fighters who had tried to flee the group or were accused of being spies.
It did not include several beheaded foreign journalists and a Jordanian pilot who was burnt to death by the group, so the probable figure is even higher, the Observatory's Rami Abdulrahman said. Hundreds of people believed captured by the Sunni Islamist group remain missing, he added.
One of the worst massacres was against the Sunni Muslim Sheitaat tribe which had been battling Islamic State in eastern Syria. Islamic State has killed at least 930 Sheitaat tribespeople, the Observatory said.
Responding to the news, ODFS Director, Ribal Al-Assad said:
"I am shocked and appalled to hear this latest news from Syria, it is a complete travesty that these animals have been able to continue committing such heinous acts.
The international community must understand that these extremists will stop at nothing to achieve their Islamic Caliphate under Sharia law - they will exterminate all those who do not conform to their narrow and perverted ideology.
These acts of barbarity reaffirms the case for an immediate intervention in Syria; we need an urgent diplomatic solution to the crisis, we also need to rid the region and indeed the world of the extremist threat.
I have reiterated this call so many times now, how many more people have to die before the international community listens?"