IS burned 80-year-old Christian woman alive: Report
Baghdad, May 27: Islamic State militants burned an 80-year-old Christian woman alive in northern Iraq for failing to comply with their drastic interpretation of Sharia law, the independent BasNews agency reported.
The punishment was carried out in the woman's village of Karamlish, 20 km southeast of Mosul, BasNews said late on Tuesday, citing Kurdistan Democratic Party representative Saed Mamuzini.
"The woman was killed for failing to obey IS's strict laws," Mamuzini was quoted as telling BasNews.
Karamlish
is
one
of
dozens
of
Assyrian
Christian
villages
in
the
Nineveh
plains
surrounding
Mosul
which
were
partially
overrun
by
IS
in
August
last
year,
causing
200,000
people
to
flee.
[ISIS
treats
Indians
as
sex
slaves,
says
reluctant
Jihadi
Majeed]
Mosul
and
surrounding
areas
in
northern
Iraq
have
been
under
IS
control
since
June
last
year
and
fighters
from
the
Sunni
extremist
group
have
reportedly
destroyed
many
Christian
churches
in
the
area.
[Islamic
State
honeymoon
bonus,
stipend
for
family]
A 20-year-old woman was said to have been burned alive by the IS after refusing to perform an "extreme sex act", the UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict Zainab Bangura told the Middle East Eye website last week.
IS militants horrified the world in February when they released a video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a metal cage.
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