"Those who were executed are all
al-Sheitaat," Observatory director Rami Abdelrahman told Reuters by telephone
from Britain. "Some were arrested, judged and killed."
The conflict sucked in the al-Sheitaat tribe, who are about 70,000 in
number, after the Islamic State captured two oil fields in July.
Sheikh Rafaa Aakla al-Raju, the head of the al-Sheitaat tribe, told
other tribes to join the fight in a video message posted on YouTube on Sunday.
"We appeal to the other tribes to
stand by us because it will be their turn next ... If (Islamic State) are done
with us the other tribes will be targeted after al-Sheitaat. They are the next
target," he said.
The latest IS slaughter in their battle to create a medieval style
caliphate across northern Iraq and Syria, come after 80 members of
the Yazidi minority were massacred by IS militants in Iraq on Friday.
A senior Kurdish official told Reuters that he believed the Yazidi men
had been killed because they refused to convert to Islam.
“We believe it because of their creed: convert or be killed.”
According to BasNews, a Kurdish website, the village of Kojo came under
attack by IS radicals. The entire male population of the village was
slaughtered and all the women and children were abducted.
In the Syrian province of Aleppo several towns and villages were seized
by IS radicals from other Islamic groups earlier in the week.
-RT
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