- They arrived in cars tonight and started killing – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Norwegian-settled Kurds told Friday afternoon Dagbladet that IS forces had carried out a massacre in northern Iraq.

– We learned that IS now Yezidi massacre in the northern Iraqi city of Kojo. IS has surrounded the city since August 3, but today they went on the attack. We get reports that hundreds have been killed. In addition, women and girls in the city abducted, told norskkurdiske Revin Aswad Dagbladet, shortly after a meeting with Foreign Minister Børge Brende and Defense Ine Søreide Eriksen.

Kojo is one of three villages in the area which is surrounded by IS. It has about 1200 inhabitants who all belong to the Yezidi minority.
Friday night said a Kurdish officer that the 80 built-builders in the village in northern Iraq had been killed by fighters from the Islamist group Islamic state (IS).

– They arrived in cars tonight and started killing. It happened probably because of their faith. Another Kurdish officer, according to NTB have confirmed the same – that more were killed, and that a number of women had been captured and taken.

Genocide

– What happens in border areas between IS- and Kurdish controlled areas of Iraq approaches which legally can be characterized as genocide, said Iraq researcher Cecilie Hellestveit by International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI) in Oslo Dagbladet earlier this week.

She has studied the cruel videos leaking from Iraq. IS has even published extensive video footage that shows what will be the mass killings and executions of Shia Muslims – both Iraqi civilians and Iraqi soldiers.

– I have seen almost 800 executions. A video shows a father with two sons who are digging their own grave as they pray for their lives. Multitudes of people entered the loading plan and run away to finish dug mass graves, until one by one being commanded down, executed and shoveled into the grave. In Iraq, we are now seeing more and more forms of execution belonging to ethnic cleansing and genocide, says Hellestveit.

Grim

Bernt Hagtvet, professor of political science at the University of Oslo, believes IS ‘mass execution enters a long tradition of the pursuit of purity and dehumanization of “the other”, where the enemy is reduced to “things” and the goal is to create a “pure” territory.

– The difference is that all previously attempted to keep horrors hidden – while IS ‘using a well-oiled propaganda machinery to broadcast videos on the web to reach as many people as possible and to create fear and again clean a territory. IS stands for an eerie combination of anti-modern ideology and modern technological aids, says Hagtvet Dagbladet.

– Mass Executions as such are not rare in war, or in the community under the influence of closed political systems and religious ideologies, says Hagtvet – and draws parallels between the IS’s ravages and both Hitler and Stalin despotisms, the atrocities committed by Mao, Pol Pot, Milosevic’s troops during the war in the Balkans, the genocide in Rwanda and the behavior of the British colonial government in Kenya and President al- Bashir in Sudan. This is about ethnic cleansing and “dehumanization” of the enemy, says Hagtvet.

UN condemns

UN Security Council adopted a resolution Friday in which they condemn the actions of rebel groups in Syria and Iraq, reports said Friday night.

The resolution is intended to frame the Islamic state (IS), which controls parts of Iraq and Syria, and al-Nusret-front, an al-Qaida-linked group active in Syria. The Security Council demands that both organizations will stop all violence and terrorism and lay down their arms with immediate effect.

UN threatens that it will be taken action against parties who provide any of these groups assistance in any way. Six people associated with the organization is also banned. Their values ​​have been seized and the imposition of travel bans.

Can affect Norway

Both the United Kingdom and the United States has decided to provide weapons to Kurdish soldiers fighting IS. It will not Norway.

Norway set with a military transport aircraft that will carry humanitarian aid to refugees in northern Iraq, announced Søreide and Foreign Minister Børge Brende (H) during a press conference Friday afternoon.

The Norwegian efforts in Iraq can still influence the threat here at home, admits Søreide.

She warns against being naive, referring to the incident in July where the Police Security Service warned of a possible terrorist threat, and response was intensified in the country.