Islamic State (IS) militants are on a killing spree in Iraq’s Anbar province, murdering another 36 members of a tribe of fellow Sunnis in a village overrun last week.  Hundreds more people were already summarily executed last week after being systematically hunted down by IS.

Al Bu Nimr tribal sources say the latest 36 victims, including women and children and members of entire families, were killed in the village of Ras al-Maa.  That’s just north of Ramadi, where another 322 members of the group were killed last week. 

“These massacres will be repeated in the coming days unless the government and its security forces help the trapped people,” said Sheik Naim al-Gaoud of the Al Bu Nimr. 

Many Sunnis initially support IS when it seized Fallujah and parts of Ramadi last December, mostly because of widespread dissatisfaction with the Shiite-led government in Baghdad that marginalized and alienated the Sunni majority.  But it didn’t take long for Islamic State and its band of foreign nihilists to show their true intentions:  Mass murder of any soldiers or civilians that refuse to accept its extremely violent interpretation of Islam and Sharia Law.