US Bishops are calling for a day of prayer for peace in Iraq on Sunday, August 17th.
The latest massacre:
Islamic State fighters had surrounded the nearby village 12 days ago and demanded that its Yazidi residents convert or die. On Friday afternoon, they moved in.
The militants told people to gather in a school, promising they would be allowed to leave Kocho after their details were recorded, said the eyewitness and the brother of the Kocho mayor, Nayef Jassem, who said he obtained his details from another witness.
The militants separated the men from the women and children under 12 years old. They took men and male teens away in groups of a few dozen each and shot them on the edge of the village, according to a wounded man who escaped by feigning death.
The fighters then walked among the bodies, using pistols to finish off anyone who appeared to still be alive, the 42-year-old man told The Associated Press by phone from an area where he was hiding. He spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for his safety. -AP
Pray.
My prayers for the innocent boys and their fathers. May God the Father of all, grant them eternal peace. I pray too for the welfare of the young children, women, and elderly left behind. May they be spared!
ReplyDeleteMary, Queen of Peace, pray for us!