(ANSA) - Rome, September 2 - ISIS Islamist militants are
carrying out "a wave of ethnic cleansing" against minorities in
northern Iraq, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
ISIS has turned the region into "blood-soaked killing
fields", the human rights group said
Earlier the UN announced it was sending a team to Iraq to
investigate "acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale".
ISIS and allied Sunni rebels have seized large swathes of
Iraq and Syria, killing thousands of people have been killed,
the majority of them civilians.
More than a million have been forced to flee their homes in
recent months.
ISIS waging ethnic cleansing - Amnesty
'Blood-soaked killing fields' says human rights group