Posted: 02/10/2015 at 11:57am | IP Logged

ISIS Terrorists Crucifying, Burying Iraqi Children Alive

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Islamic State terrorists are torturing and burying children alive in Iraq, according to a report by the United Nations.

The U.N. says ISIS is systematically killing, torturing and raping children and families from the Yazidi sect and Christian communities.

The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child has received reports of several cases of mass executions of boys. There are also reports of children being beheaded, crucified, and buried alive.

"They (ISIS) say, 'If anyone don't become like Muslim, we kill them, each one, from baby to woman to old man,'" a middle-aged woman told CBN News' Chris Mitchell.

The United Nations is calling on government forces there to do more to protect children and their families.

The group's barbarism is raising new questions about the tactics and goals of the jihadist army and the threat it poses to the West.

CBN Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell addresses those questions and more in his new book, Destination Jerusalem.

Last fall, Mitchell heard firsthand the atrocities that ISIS is committing against Christians and other minority groups in northern Iraq.

"They're using the sword to cut off hands and beheading others," one older man told Mitchell. "I don't think this is the behavior of human beings, but wild animals do that."

***Mitchell spoke more with Christian World News co-anchor Wendy Griffith about that experience and his new book. Click play to watch that interview.