Islamic State

(asked on 17th December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of how many (a) children, (b) women and (c) men have been killed by Daesh/ISIL; and what his Department's estimate is of the number of women who have been raped by Daesh.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 5th January 2016

The Government is not able to estimate the number of people who have been murdered, raped or subjected to sexual violence at the hands of Daesh. However, the UN and other international organisations have reported on the scale of Daesh violence in Iraq and Syria.

Reticulating Splines