Amnesty International accuses Islamic State of Ethnic Cleansing

Amnesty International, the  human rights group, blamed the Islamic State of carrying out ethnic cleansing in northern Iraq in a statement Tuesday.

In a 26 page report, Amnesty International said that militants have killed hundreds of Yazidi men and boys and kidnapped thousands of women and children, according to the Associated Press.

The Amnesty International report is an addition to the evidence already available against the crimes committed by the Islamic State militants.

"The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities is sweeping across northern Iraq," said Amnesty investigator Donatella Rovera.

Two of the most tragic mass killings happened in early August after the Islamic State seized the SInjar mountains region.

Nobody knows how many men and boys were massacred by the Islamic State at the Sinjar mountain area. But the Amnesty report said that hundreds of men were probably shot to death.

Yazidi lawmaker, Mahma Khalil, has asked the Iraqi government and international community to help the Yazidis immediately. He said that they are still facing atrocities from the Islamic State militants.

"They have been trying hard to force us to abandon our religion. We reject that because we are the oldest faith in Iraq, that has roots in Mesopotamia," Khalil said, reports AP.

Meanwhile, outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited the Shiite Turkmen town of Amerli on Monday. Malike declared from Amerli that Iraq will be a "graveyard" for the Islamic State, reports Voice of America.