Horrific stories of 30,000 Yazidis trapped by Islamic State jihadists emerge after 8,000 escape down the mountain. Children trapped on a mountain by Islamic State militants in Iraq are drinking blood from their parents to stay alive, it emerged today.
UK Daily Mail Their horrendous plight was revealed after some 8,000 Yazidis were finally able to escape down Mount Sinjar where they have been under siege from jihadist fighters for the last week. Those fleeing have made it to relative safety at a camp in Dohuk Province in Kurdistan, where they have told horrific stories of the 30,000 who have been left behind.
Sky News correspondent Sherine Tadros, who is at the camp, said: ‘One man has just told us how he saw four children die of thirst. ‘There was nowhere to bury them on the mountain so they just put rocks on their bodies. ‘Another man was saying the children were so thirsty, their parents started cutting their own hands and giving them blood to drink.’
Hundreds of other families have also made it across the border after trekking for hundreds of kilometres through sweltering temperatures to safety. They are being given food, water and medical treatment at shelters in Turkey and Syria after being driven out of their town by ISIS more than a week ago.
Some have been forced to pay smugglers their life savings to take them on perilous journeys across the border into Turkey, sometimes through minefields. They are among several gruelling treks to freedom the community has taken after they were sent scattering to the four corners by the insurgency, which has trapped around 30,000 others on Sinjar Mountain with no food or water.
Around 2,000 Yazidis have made it to a refugee camp in Derabon, a small village near Zakho on the Iraqi Kurdistan-Turkey border. But with no passports, many are having to sit tight and hope the uprising is crushed or pay smugglers to help them avoid the official border crossing at Habur.
One mother who suffers agonising rheumatism told how she and her three young children waded through the Tigris River, tip-toed her way through a minefield and climbed through a barbed-wire fence to make it into Turkey. Half-way through the five-hour journey, Amal said the smuggler wanted her children to leave her behind because she was too slow, but they chose to carry her instead.
The 43-year-old told The Times: ‘My sons gathered around me and they refused. We were not afraid of dying there. We were afraid of dying at the hands of the Islamic State.’
Another teenager has not been so lucky.Amer Omar Pajo said he watched his father get shot in the head by ISIS gunmen as they fled to the mountains and his mother later succumbed to dehydration.
Last night FOX reported that the Navy will QUIT offering humanitarian aid to these people. Once again King Putt could do something good to help Christians but they aren’t his beloved moolim’s so he will let them die. Putt repeats the lie he is a Christian at every chance but as a Christian I find it hard to not want to do something for Christian’s who are facing death.
Hello reporters …. please focus on the water …. show us if it is getting to the people …. do your job ! Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad Thirst For Justice World Tour
Too sad we don’t have leaders like Roosevelt, Churchill or De gaulle alive today. Obama, is a symbol of western impotency. Seriously??? 2 F18s were sent? This is a dry run by islamists to check determination of West. Just like Hitler marched his troops into Rhineland to check britishers and french determination.
I wonder why private US contractors can’t get involved helping these poor bastards.
BO doesn’t want to help these poor bastards. He wants them to die. Therefore he will not allow the Contractors IN. Remember the Contractors are an army of Ours to do the warring as war is fought, not as our military has their hands tied by the Geneva convention. Thus they fall under a lose control of the Pres. My what many don’t know.
Have you heard of Black Water? Prime Example. They are called contractors, giving the impression of guys building houses and schools etc. However they transport the mucky ups around and shot first, ask questions later.
WHAT ; is the combined non muslim world waiting for ….destroy utterly isis, Boko haram and any other hairball group of jihadi Mahdi wet dream vampire cultists..break the head of this virus quickly WITH any islam nation rising out of the weeds to defend them … now.. or face the insanity in our streets tomorrow.. how can they be countenanced in any way… these are monstrous perversions of humanity.
The west will do NOTHING because Muslims might take offense
AND WE WERE FOOLED BY THE MEDIA, FOR A MONTH, TO LOOK AT GAZA WHILE ISLAMIC STATE WAS BUTCHERING EVERYBODY WHO THEY COULD CATCH.
THE HORROR CULT OF ISLAM MUST BE OUTLAWED NOW.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
It’s just getting started. Bible prophecy predicts these things for the last days.
Why are there any IS jihad-scum anywhere near this place? What have Obama’s two F18s been doing for the past week? They should have been able to totally smash all IS forces and equipment and have sent them running in disarray.
More window-dressing from the useless and traitorous president of the ‘most powerful’ nation on earth – the man should be tarred and feathered in preparation for his impeachment.
I cannot even put my disgust and anger into words at American, British, and other Western leaders who waged war in Iraq and financed, armed and trained ISIS and other muslim terrorists in Syria to wage war against Syria’s innocents and facilitate the overthrow of Assad’s secular regime that PROTECTED Christians and other minorities in Syria — in order to place into power Western leaders’ highly favored muslim terrorists to rule over Syrians with barbaric sharia law.
Ruthless Western leaders live happy lives in pampered luxury and wealth in great safety whilst transforming the lives of people in formerly stable countries into living hell on earth.
Western ruling elites fought ferocious wars destabilizing nations and now sit back CONTENT with the nightmare horrors they have created for hundreds of thousands of innocents who they REFUSE to help.
My sentiments exactly Linda. I sometimes think we are a lone voice in the wilderness amongst this evil cult, although I know of course the anti-jihad movement is doing all it can to get the word out. I despair at today’s ignorant western so-called leaders, which they most certainly are not. They are leading us all into the Islamic hell .
On a side note, obama had a great round of golf
What’s his handy cap? 30,000 dead Christians and 20,000 dead Yazidis..!
OMG!!!! Where is the useless UN??? Where is America?????? Is no country willing to airdrop these people just WATER??? WTF!
several countries are helping 35,000 gallons of water has been dropped but this is a large area.
more is on the way