Iraq crisis: 'How I survived Islamic State massacre' - BBC News

A survivor of the massacre in Kawju (also spelt Kocho) in Iraq, in which Islamic State (IS) militants killed at least 80 people, has told the BBC that initially they had promised not to hurt the people in the village. Rafed Said Amu says he only escaped by walking for 12 hours to Mount Sinjar, after crawling away while bodies were bulldozed into a mass grave. Speaking to the BBC's Yalda Hakim, he said that IS rounded up the men outside the village and shot them, while taking the women away with them.

[albertarthurparsnips]

I'm very pleased that this poor bloke survived. I wish you all the very best, sir, for both yourself and your loved ones. The acidic savagery that's been poured, back and forth, to and fro, from Beirut, Gaza, Hama, Mosul, Aleppo, Bazra, Bahrain, and Faluja, seeping its way into the marrow of almost every victim's gizzards, .its deplorable.

[ScottishAtheist]

Lucky bastard. What an awful situation.

[ebig]

actually I was wondering why don't people just convert to Sunni when they are in ISIS territory? I mean faking to be one until you're out of their controlled area?

[seandelaney]

What about the black box from flight MH17?? has it just disappeared again or are they still making it up to suit the narrative??? 

[harshtandel]

This man must leave islam n convert toother rekigion