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General Category => World News => Topic started by: flowers on August 13, 2014, 07:35:50 pm

Title: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: flowers on August 13, 2014, 07:35:50 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2723712/Persecuted-Iraqis-chased-ISIS-finally-reach-Syrian-refuge-camp-perilous-trek-border.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

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Horrific stories of 30,000 Yazidis trapped by Islamic State jihadists emerge after 8,000 escape down the mountain
Hundreds of families have made it across border into Turkey and Syria after trekking for days in 45C temperatures
Minority sect has been sent scattering in all directions after Islamic State jihadists stormed their town a week ago
Some families have been forced to pay smugglers to take them through rivers and minefields to make it to safety
Another 130 U.S. troops have arrived in Iraq to assess the crisis facing 30,000 Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar
British Government also remained under pressure to consider military intervention to rescue the refugees
Title: Re: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: flowers on August 13, 2014, 07:40:24 pm
Can the human actually drink blood to get the same needs as water? I would doubt this.
Title: Re: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: DCPatriot on August 13, 2014, 08:01:45 pm
Quote from: flowers on August 13, 2014, 07:40:24 pm
Can the human actually drink blood to get the same needs as water? I would doubt this.

Don't know, but it's an exhibit of unconditional love.   
Title: Re: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: truth_seeker on August 13, 2014, 08:10:20 pm
Where are some of the Arab/muslim countries, their governments, their armed forces?
Title: Re: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: DCPatriot on August 13, 2014, 08:39:07 pm
Quote from: truth_seeker on August 13, 2014, 08:10:20 pm
Where are some of the Arab/muslim countries, their governments, their armed forces?

How can Putin remain silent about this?   He could immediately tell everybody to back off and that he was going in to 'rescue' these people and let them go back to their homes.

....and kill a few thousand savages along the way.
Title: Re: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: EC on August 14, 2014, 02:53:10 am
Quote from: flowers on August 13, 2014, 07:40:24 pm
Can the human actually drink blood to get the same needs as water? I would doubt this.

For a short time, yes. The Masai do it all the time. Lancet a cow, drink the blood, then seal the hole again with mud. It's crude, but it works.
Title: Re: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: alicewonders on August 14, 2014, 05:15:56 am
This is unimaginable horror and evil that I have never seen before in my lifetime.  It's like a portal has opened somewhere. 
Title: Re: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: EC on August 14, 2014, 05:46:44 am
Quote from: alicewonders on August 14, 2014, 05:15:56 am
This is unimaginable horror and evil that I have never seen before in my lifetime.  It's like a portal has opened somewhere.

You are a gentle woman. Someone I love and respect. I have a couple scars on my wrists.
Title: Re: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: alicewonders on August 14, 2014, 06:01:06 am
Quote from: EC on August 14, 2014, 05:46:44 am
You are a gentle woman. Someone I love and respect. I have a couple scars on my wrists.

I can't imagine the things that you have seen, and others here as well.  I think I now understand The Crusades much better.  I hope you're enjoying your retirement EC.   034   
Title: Re: The Iraqi children 'drinking their parents' BLOOD to stay alive': How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young
Post by: EC on August 14, 2014, 07:19:45 am
Quote from: alicewonders on August 14, 2014, 06:01:06 am
I can't imagine the things that you have seen, and others here as well.  I think I now understand The Crusades much better.  I hope you're enjoying your retirement EC.   034   

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Honestly - it is boring the pants off me. On the odd occasion I wear them  :whistle:

Not converted back to civ mode yet. Will eventually, but right now it's a touch rough.