Alwaght-The world is on eve of another massacre of undefended civilians. Fewer than 20000 Iraqi people are besieged by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Amerli, a town 110 miles north of Baghdad, which is home to About 5,000 Shiite Turkmen families, which has been under siege without power and running out of food, water and medical supplies.
The town has been encircled by fighters from ISIS terrorist group for more than two months. The majority of the residents of Amerli are part of the Turkmen ethnic group, who are descendants of Ottoman Turks and make up roughly four percent of Iraq’s population. As Shiites, they are directly targeted by ISIS terrorist group, who considers them apostates.
Nickolay Mladenov, special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for Iraq, called on the international community to halt “the unspeakable suffering of Amerli’s inhabitants”. He said “The situation of the people in Amerli is desperate and demands immediate action to prevent the possible massacre of its citizens”.
“The town is besieged by Isil and reports confirm that people are surviving in desperate conditions. I urge the Iraqi government to do whatever it can to relieve the siege and to ensure that the residents receive lifesaving humanitarian assistance or are evacuated in a dignified manner.
Nearly three dozen villages surrounding Amerli are already under terrorists' control. The people of Amerli are relying on the Iraqi government to take them out by helicopter or support them with food drops.
Their situation echoes a situation worse than the ordeal of Iraq's ethnic and religious minority, Yazidis. The ISIS terrorist group's crimes in Sinjar, stronghold of Yazidis, triggered reaction of the UN, international organizations, some western countries, and America's first airstrikes.
Yazidis' slaughter was not the only event that led to West's reaction but the White House has issued its strongest condemnation yet of the suspicious killing of American journalist James Foley, describing his beheading as an act of terrorism and warning that the US military response would not be restricted by international borders.
However, surprisingly, UN, America and its allies are only watching crimes, occurring in the other parts of Iraq e.g. in Amerli by the ISIS terrorist group. Western powers' double standards are more obvious when their approach towards ISIS terrorist group in its stronghold Syria is considered. Western countries not only did nothing to stop ISIS terrorists, but also they did their best to fund and to arm brutal ISIS terrorists with all types of guns.
Indeed, western powers are following their own imperialistic goals in the Middle East by resorting to every apparatus to serve their interests. On the one hand, the ISIS terrorist group is supported and armed in Syria to topple down Bashar al-Asad, who as one of the Resistance Axis leaders, has nagged them, on the other hand, they confront the very same group in Iraq, of course in parts that their interest are threatened, which indeed is a pretext for them to return back into Iraq. A country with great sources of energy and unique geopolitical factors that America had occupied in 2003 but was forced to leave there in 2011 due to Iraqi peoples' resistance. After three years, American officials are seeking another opportunity to return and compensate for their humiliating withdrawal from Iraq.
