Islamic State Advertises Its Human Rights Abuses, Unlike Assad
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Islamic State advertises the forced impregnation, rape and sexual enslavement of teenage girls, it displays dismembered body parts in city squares and publicly carries out beheadings or amputations for actions such as cigarette-smoking or theft, according to the United Nations.
A panel of independent UN human-rights investigators concluded that the group “actively promotes their abuses and crimes” to demonstrate its control and to reinforce its ideology. That approach is in “marked contrast” to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime or other opposition groups “who conceal evidence of their human rights violations and abuses,” according to a report released today in Geneva.