Human Rights Watch ISIS Execution Call Off 49 People in Libya

Tripoli - international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW), calling the militant Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has executed nearly 50 people dead in the region of Sirte, Libya. HRW called the killing by ISIS it leads to war crimes.

HRW, based in New York is calling ISIS Sirte intentionally making people suffer, to divert supplies of food, medicine, fuel and cash flows since February last year. Sirte has become a stronghold of ISIS in Libya.

In a report based on interviews as reported by AFP on Wednesday (18/05/2016), at least 49 people in Libya were killed by the cruel way in the hands of ISIS, ranging from the cut to be shot. They were executed ISIS accused of a number of criminal acts, such as blasphemy, shamanism and became a spy.

"Residents of Sirte call it a horror scenery - beheading in public, the bodies dressed in orange hanging from a pole, in practice they call the 'crucifixion' and masked militants carrying the men from their beds at night," the HRW report said.

"They called moral police aided by informants patrolling the streets, threatening them, impose a fine or whipping men who smoke, listen to music or failed to ensure his wife and their sister was wearing an abaya (traditional clothes Muslim women were loose and cover their whole body ), "said the HRW report.

HRW calls, executions of 49 Libyans were to follow the proceedings secret that much of the judicial standards in general. "ISIS is also abduct and eliminate dozens of Libyan militias, which many thought was dead," said the HRW report, citing defectors ISIS and local authorities exiled.

41-page HRW report also said the looting and destruction of homes enemy by ISIS militants. While specialty stores fashions Western countries and also special lingerie forcibly closed by ISIS.

One local resident named Ahlam (30) describes life in Sirte suffering and fear, because many innocent people killed by ISIS. "There are no grocery stores, hospitals have no doctors or nurses, no drugs ... There's a spy in every street. Most people have gone, but we were stuck. We did not have enough money to go," he explained.

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ISIS control of Sirte since last year, taking advantage of the chaos in Libya between local militias and the government are jockeying for power since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

"The killing of civilians or wounded and kidnapped fighters by members of armed groups is a war crime, as well as executing people without a fair trial through the court regularly. The shape and scale executions unlawful by ISIS and other actions in Libya also refers to the crime against humanity, "said HRW.