According to a United Nations report released on Tuesday, ISIS are holding around 3,500 people as slaves in Iraq. The report issued jointly by the UN human rights office and the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq says that most of those being detained are women and children from Iraq’s Yazidi community. The report said the scale of “systematic and widespread violence” perpetrated by ISIS from May to October 2015 was “staggering, with the enslavement of the Yazidi people being among the worst atrocities documented. RT reports: It goes on to state that the militant group, which also controls large swathes of territory in neighboring Syria, has committed widespread abuses that may “in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.” The report details executions by shooting, beheading, bulldozing, burning alive, and throwing people off the top of buildings. It also states that the UN has information about the murder of child soldiers, and has verified reports suggesting that between 800 and 900 children in Mosul were abducted for military and religious training. Despite the figures detailed in the document, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein noted that they fail to represent all those [...]