A 52-year-old woman in Sweden was on Thursday charged over her association with ISIS, genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria, in the first such trial in the Scandinavian country.
Swedish citizen Lina Laina Ishaq is accused of committing the crimes between August 2014 and December 2016, in the city of Raqqa, the former de facto capital of ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate and home to about 300,000 people.
In 2014, ISIS militants - including 40,000 foreign fighters- stormed Yazidi towns and villages in Iraq’s Sinjar region and abducted women and children. Women were forced into sexual slavery and boys were taken to be indoctrinated.
“Women, children and men were regarded as property and subjected to being traded as slaves, sexual slavery, forced labour, deprivation of liberty and extrajudicial executions”…“ISIS tried to annihilate the Yazidi ethnic group on an industrial scale.“
Back in 2014, one British Left Wing group called Left Unity even debated the ”progressive potential“ of Islamic State’s ‘Caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria. Left Unity is a member of the Party of The European Left but claimed;
”Such a state could only be a stabilizing force for the region“ and the confusion between IS and Al Qaeda was the result of ”Western propaganda, which is set on establishing ’guilt by association’ with an infamous, established demon“.
According to Amnesty International, IS were ”carrying out genocide on a historic scale“.
