Islamic State forces are on the verge of entering Kobani amid stories of murder and rape inflicted upon members of the Kurdish population unable to escape their advance. Mostafa Kader was one of the restive crowd, grieving for an uncle who had been beheaded by militants, and a young mother and her daughter both brutally raped and murdered. Kader fled 10 days ago, leaving his village, which lies 16km from Kobani centre, in the small hours of the morning. He and his wife took their five-year-old, their toddler and what little else they could carry. His uncle planned to join them but at the last minute changed his mind, unable to leave a village that had been his home for more than eight decades. The militants beheaded him, refugees arriving later told Kader. He was 85 – he could not even lift a weapon, said the young father, baffled by the brutality. Even more haunting were stories from his wifes village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood. They had been raped, and their hearts were cut out of their chests and left on top of the bodies, he said, struggling to hold back tears. I buried them with my own hands. theguardian/world/2014/oct/04/turkey-troops-isis-siege-kobani-refugees-rape-and-murder
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:02:56 +0000
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