The 39 Indian workers were killed when ISIS had reached a peak of brutality and had no intention of negotiating, unlike earlier hostage situations
On March 20, Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj informed a stunned Rajya Sabha that the 39 Indian workers who had been in the custody of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) since June 2014 were dead. This announcement has ended four years of hope in the hearts of family members that their loved ones still lived, a hope that had survived in spite of persistent reports of ISIS’s intolerance and brutality and its dreadful record of killing those in its custody.
ISIS was the product of the US-led war on Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent occupation of that country, during which state structures and institutions were systematically dismantled and the virus of sectarianism was injected deliberately into the broken political and social order.
Wellsprings Of ISIS
The US occupation of Iraq meant not just the robust ‘empowerment’ of the Shia as part of its deliberate divide-and-rule policies—it also meant the dismissal, incarceration, torture, unemployment and humiliation of Sunnis in senior ministerial, civil service, armed forces and security positions, besides attacks on them and their family members by the newly set-up Shia militia, often backed by Iran.
The jehad led by the Afghanistan veteran Abu Musab al-Zarqawi from 2003 attracted a large number of such disenfranchised Sunnis who now took up arms against the US occupation and the Shia community in general.
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