Observer: ISIS Executed At Least 1,500 Syrians Since June

The hardline, Islamist militant group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), is claimed to have executed at least around 1,500 people since it declared the establishment of its' Islamist Caliphate five months ago, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as quoted by AFP.
 
"The Observatory have seen the documentations of 1,429 executions since ISIS proclaimed its' caliphate in June," said the Observatory's Director Rami Abdel Rahman, who said that the majority of the victims are civilians.

"From all executions that we are aware of, around 879 people are ordinary civilians, while around 700 others are members of the Shaitat tribe," said Rami, who also said that 63 victims are members of the al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliated group that competes with ISIS in some aspects.

The Shaitats - a Sunni tribe from Deir Ezzor Province - take up arms to resist ISIS in 2014.
"Four hundred and eighty three victims are members of the Syrian army, while four are ISIS' own members, who had been accused of corruption and/or other misdeeds," said Rami.

ISIS is known to have executed a large number of troops who are loyal to embattled Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, after it assumed control of a number of key positions in Central and Northern Syria.

Most of the troops were beheaded and their bodies left to rot in public as a way to terrorise ordinary civilians and other groups who wanted to go against ISIS, said Rami.
"They executed these civilians as a way to terrorise the international community, as well as to attract other militant groups to jump ships to support ISIS instead," said Rami to AFP.

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