For tens of thousands of ethnic minority men, women and children in Iraq, they face a bleak choice - face execution at the hands of ISIS, or starvation in hiding in the mountains.
Thousands from the Yezidi Kurdish minority are now in hiding in the northern mountain ranges, after the men were threatened with beheading and the women into forced prostitution, according to local reports. Yezidis practice a version of the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism, and as a sect they were once deemed 'devil worshippers' by Sadaam Hussein's regime.
[A COMMENT] There is one backward ideology responsible for this, and one backward ideology involved in 90/95% of wars in the world today. [The Huffington Post UK] Read more
