Iraqi minority vows death before IS capture (Amerli, Iraq)
Source: Al Jazeera
Baghdad – Residents of a besieged Iraqi town say they have prepared graves for their families and will kill their wives and children if the city falls to the Islamic State group.
The Shia Turkmen of Amerli, a town in the north of Iraq, are resisting Islamic State fighters who have surrounded them for two months. On Saturday, the Iraqi army and Shia militiamen launched an offensive to break the siege, but the fate of those inside still hangs in the balance.
Residents told Al Jazeera that they would rather kill themselves than fall into the hands of the Islamic State group, which has been accused of murdering those from religious minorities. The US and its allies last month intervened to break the siege of thousands of Yazidi tribesmen who were besieged on Sinjar mountain by the Islamic State.
"In every three to four houses we have dug graves. If the Islamic State storms our town everyone will be killing their wives and children and they will bury them," says Mehdi, a government employee reached by phone in Amerli.
Mehdi, who asked for his real name to be withheld, said their wives had agreed they would rather die than be taken captive by the group. "They say ‘we don’t want to end up in the hands of the Islamic State, being enslaved like those in Sinjar mountain….We don’t want the Islamic State to lay their hands on us.’”
Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/iraqi-minority-vows-death-before-capture-2014830213941855171.html
The US is UPDATE: "possibly" conducting airstrikes in Amerli now and dropping aid. Unconfirmed that French and British forces are helping as well as Peshmerga and supposedly large force coming from Baghdad.
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Its not very hard to take out a convoy of Toyota pickup trucks flying black flags with 50 cal guns mounted on them but I doubt the neocons and other interests are in any rush to take those rebels out.
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