ISIS has turned northern Iraq into 'blood-soaked killing fields', says Amnesty International as new evidence of ethnic cleansing against minorities emerges
Gruesome evidence has emerged of attempted ethnic cleansing by Isis, with Amnesty International claiming that the terrorist group has turned northern Iraq into 'blood-soaked killing fields'. The London-based rights group says that Isis, also known as the Islamic State (IS), is trying to wipe out ethnic and religious minorities with mass summary killings that could amount to war crimes. It fears that vulnerable communities such as Assyrian Christians, Yazidis, Turkmen and Shabaks 'risk being wiped off the map of Iraq' by the terrorists, who in June overran northern and western parts of the country. Amnesty has released a series of terrifying accounts from survivors of massacres, who describe how men and boys have been rounded up and shot dead and women and children abducted. Scroll down for videos +4 Horrorific: Amnesty says that Isis, also known as the Islamic State, is trying to wipe out ethnic and religious minorities with...