Amnesty International has accused Islamic State jihadists of "systematic ethnic cleansing" and mass killings of mi**rities in **rthern Iraq, in a report published Tuesday. "The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against mi**rities is sweeping across **rthern Iraq," said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's Senior Crisis Response Adviser currently in **rthern Iraq.