Islamic State: Militants 'kill 300 Yazidi captives'
Source: BBC
Several hundred Yazidi captives have been killed in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants west of Mosul, Yazidi and Iraqi officials say.
A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party said 300 captives were killed on Friday in the Tal Afar district near the city.
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It is not clear how they were killed, or why this has happened now, says the BBC's Middle East editor Alan Johnston.
Many are reported to have been held in Mosul, the main stronghold of IS after the militants swept through large areas of northern and western Iraq, and eastern Syria in 2014.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32565809
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but I'm never shocked anymore by the horrible things that people in large groups can do to other people. After the Nazis organized and operated an efficient bureaucratic machine for murdering millions of 'undesirables,' and the grotesqueness of the Rwandan genocide, what shock value is left in organized mass murder? It's something that's been going on for thousands of years... 
