Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Meanwhile, in USA-Liberated Iraq

[Radical] Sunni Muslim fighters have been targeting Iraq's Christians and other minority groups, as well as Shiite Muslims.

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When [they] stormed the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar over the weekend, the Yazidi minority who call it home fled into the surrounding mountains in fear of their lives. Now, trapped without food, water or medical care in the summer heat, thousands of families are in desperate need of help. It's already too late to save dozens of children who've died of thirst.

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Rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday that fighters from the Islamic State continue to surround the mountain area where the Yazidis and other Iraqis who fled the Sinjar area are hiding

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The U.N. children's agency, UNICEF, said Tuesday that official reports indicated 40 children from the Yazidi minority had died "as a direct consequence of violence, displacement and dehydration" since the weekend.

"Families who fled the area are in immediate need of urgent assistance, including up to 25,000 children who are now stranded in mountains surrounding Sinjar and are in dire need of humanitarian aid including drinking water and sanitation services," it said.

  CNN
But they died free, right?

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