According to reliable sources, ISIS has been using “tens of thousands” of Iraqi civilians as human shields as they attempt to hold the Iraqi city of Mosul. Many were shot for simply defying ISIS’s orders to leave their homes and some were shot for being previously affiliated with Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). According to the office of the UN’s High Commissioner on Human Rights, 232 people were shot to death last Wednesday, of those 190 were formerly associated with the ISF. In an effort to hold control of Mosul ISIS has been moving civilians from surrounding villages and districts into the city, obviously as a ploy to keep the Iraqi and American Army’s from making more aggressive inroads with the operation to liberate Mosul that started eleven days ago.