ICC Note: A french priest and professor at Georgetown University, Father Patrick Desbois,  has explained the systematic strategy of ISIS against Christians, Yazidis and other minorities in Iraq. While we have heard many accounts of such tactics, Desbois has studied and analyzed the militants special strategy saying they have no improvisation. Basically, the group dislocates families according to age and sexuality, with each family member having a special role to play, i.e. human trafficking, cubs of the caliphate. 

11/11/2016 Iraq (Christian Post): A Roman Catholic priest who has been helping Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities facing genocide in Iraq and Syria said Islamic State militants separate families who live in terrorist occupied land by taking newborn babies and virgin girls while killing fathers and forcing young boys to plant bombs on the streets.

Father Patrick Desbois, a Paris-based priest who for decades has been researching the Holocaust and fighting anti-Semitism through his Yahad–In Unum global humanitarian organization, has in recent years turned to helping minority victims of the IS-led genocide in Iraq and Syria, specifically the Yazidi people.

Desbois told The Christian Post in a phone interview that IS, which he noted has also killed scores of Shia Muslims and Christians, uses a “very special” strategy to carry out its decimation of entire people groups.

“They dislocate the families, they take the newborn babies, and they put them in Islamist families,” Desbois told CP, noting that the young children are trained as terrorists, and “forced to put bombs” on streets.

“The young girls who are virgins are selected by doctors and sold,” he added, referring to the terror group’s human trafficking and sex trade, which has seen many thousands of women and children sold to jihadists.

The men, on the other hand, are often shot in pits, he said, evidence for which are the many mass graves being discovered in territory newly liberated from IS’ grasp.

The priest, who is a professor at Georgetown University, explained that IS “dislocate families according to age, sexuality,” and said that “every member of the family” is used “in a special way.”

“I’ve never seen that, it’s very organized, there is no improvisation,” he added.

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