Speaking in the European Parliament on the 27th November 2014,  David Campbell Bannerman, MEP for the Eastern Counties and Chairman of the EU/Iraq Delegation,  condemned the ‘barbaric killing, kidnapping, rape committed by ISIS fighters in Iraq.’   He went on to say that such actions constitute a  ‘war crime, and are crimes against humanity.’   The MEP stated that ‘these terrorist crimes committed against women and girls by the so-called Islamic State are inhuman’ and involved the ‘utterly abhorrent use of forced religious conversions, marriages and sexual enslavement.’