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STORY: GENEVA / ISIL ATROCITIES
TRT: 02:11
SOURCE: UNVT CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 NOVEMBER 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Aerial shot, Palais des Nations exterior
04 NOVEMBER 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We have reports that ISIL militants are holding captive nearly 400 women from Kurdish, Yezidi or Shia’a Muslim communities in Tal Afar. Since 17 October, ISIL has also reportedly been forcibly recruiting children from the age of nine or ten as fighters in Mosul.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We have credible reports that ISIL killed 50 of its own militants and this was in Mosul city in a military base, called the Ghazlani military base. There are also credible reports that 180 people were killed on Wednesday in Kokjali town in eastern Mosul.”
6. Close up, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“What we do know is that ISIL has been forcing residents from Hamam al-Alil city, for example, to hand in, to surrender, all children who are aged at least nine or ten to the group, and apparently they’ve also been using loudspeakers mounted on the back of pick-ups or the back of vehicles, and threatening severe punishment for families that do not comply with their order."
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9. UPSOUND (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“They’ve been knocking on people’s doors and asking for their boys, specifically.”
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We have also received reports of civilian deaths caused by airstrikes, including one on Wednesday evening that reportedly killed four women and wounded 17 other civilians in the al-Qudus neighbourhood of eastern Mosul. We remind the Government and its allies that all military operations, as well as the security screening of people, must be carried out in full compliance with international humanitarian law, and that they must strictly abide by the principles of humanity, distinction, proportionality, necessity, and precaution to avoid and minimize loss of civilian life.”
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The United Nations (UN) human rights office (OHCHR) said ISIL militants have been recruiting boys as young as nine from villages around Mosul and killing deserters as the Iraqi army and its allies move closer to the extremists’ stronghold in the city.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva today (4 Nov), OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said the militants had been using loudspeakers mounted on the back of vehicles to threaten families in Hamam Al-Alil city if they refuse to hand their children who were aged “at least nine or 10” and “knocking on people’s doors and asking for their boys, specifically.”
Shamdasani said her office received reports that ISIL was holding captive some 400 women “Kurdish, Yezidi or Shia’a Muslim communities” in Tal Afar. The group was also reportedly continuing to force civilians closer to Mosul to act as human shields against airstrikes. The spokesperson said some families were told that they may be transported to Syria.
The human rights office also reported mass killings by the extremist group even among its own ranks. Shamdasani said “credible reports” indicated that ISIL killed 50 of its own militants in the Ghazlani military base for alleged desertion. She said 180 people were killed on Wednesday in the town Kokjali in eastern Mosul, and possibly some 200 others in Mosul city.
She said an airstrike on Wednesday also reported killed four women and wounded 17 other civilians. She reminded the Government and its allies that all military operations must be carried out in full compliance with international humanitarian law adding that they must “strictly abide by the principles of humanity, distinction, proportionality, necessity, and precaution to avoid and minimize loss of civilian life.”
