UNSC urged to investigate IS's trade in human organs

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Wednesday 18 Feb 2015 - 14:27 Makkah mean time-29-4-1436 (Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images) New York (IINA) – Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations Mohamed Alhakim on Tuesday asked the Security Council to investigate allegations of Islamic State (IS) group’s trade in human organs to finance its operations in Iraq and Syria. In his testimony before the UNSC, Alhakim said that in the past few weeks, authorities have discovered bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys or other organs in several shallow mass graves, leading many to believe that the extremist group might be harvesting these organs to fund its caliphate, Sky News Arabia reported. He said that IS militants had executed several doctors in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul for refusing to harvest organs from its victims. He also accused IS of being guilty of “crimes of genocide,” as it targets ethnic groups. “These terrorist groups have desecrated all human values. They have committed the most heinous criminal terrorist acts against the Iraqi people,” he added. The Iraqi government, backed by airstrikes being carried out by the U.S.-led international coalition, has sought to repel IS fighters, who swept over the northern provinces of the country in June 2014. AB/IINA