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ISIS commits mass murder, advertises it: Iraq executions detailed

Satellite imagery and photographs confirm that the Islamic State of Iraq andthe Levant (ISIS) have staged mass executions in the northern Iraqi city ofTikrit, which amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes, according to Human Rights Watch.

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Radical Islamists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) have stormed unopposed across much ofnorthern Iraq and have taken the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, as well as capturing border posts with Syria. Their aim is to

Published time: June 27, 2014 15:37 Edited time: June 28, 2014 10:22

A file image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of theIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executing dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members at an unknownlocation in the Salaheddin province (AFP Photo / HO)

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create a medieval-style caliphate in northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

Human Rights Watch report that between 160 and 190 men were killed in at least two locations around Tikrit betweenJune 11 and June 14.

Pictures on the HRW website showed rows of men lined up in trenches who were then shot by gunmen, it also said thatthe death toll could be much higher, but they had no way of locating bodies or even getting to the area to carry out afull investigation.

"The photos and satellite images from Tikrit provide strong evidence of a horrible war crime that needs furtherinvestigation. They and other abusive forces should know that the eyes of Iraqis and the world are watching," HumanRights Watch emergencies director, Peter Bouckaert, said in a statement.

ISIS is committing mass murder, and advertising it as well, he added.

ISIS themselves claim to have executed 1,700 Shia soldiers in Tikrit and Iraqs human rights minister, Mohamed ShiaSudani, announced on June 22 that 175 air force recruits had been executed by ISIS, also in Tikrit. Some of them werethrown into the Tigris River while others were buried in mass graves.

HRW posted around 60 photographs on its Twitter feed on June 14, which showed fighters herding civilians onto trucksbefore forcing them to lie in three trenches.

A file image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of theIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executing dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members at an unknownlocation in the Salaheddin province (AFP Photo / HO)

Between 90 and 110 men were killed in one trench and between 35 and 40 in another, the New York Based rights groupsaid.

HRW spoke to one man who had managed to escape from Tikrit after the killings. He said he had seen hundreds of menbeing loaded onto trucks and driven away by ISIL fighters.

I saw them with my own eyes. It was late afternoon. It was a long line. I saw about 10 armed gunmen with their gunspointed at a line of men, walking them to military trucks. Some of the gunmen had masks and others showed theirfaces, he said.

Separately the United Nations said on Friday that at least 1,000 people were killed in other violence in Iraq in June.Victims included summary executions committed by ISIS and prisoners who were killed by retreating Iraqi soldiers. Reutersput the figure at more than a thousand.

UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said on Tuesday that this figure is a minimum and was likely to be higher. Hesaid that some people, including civilians, police and soldiers who were not in combat had been killed in summaryexecutions, while others had been killed in shelling and cross fire.

"The evidence will be gathered just as it has been gathered for several years now in Syria against whoever iscommitting crimes, and hopefully one day there will be some accountability, but with groups like ISIS/ISIL obviouslyit's particularly difficult," he said.

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A UN spokesman said on Tuesday that ISIL have broadcast dozens of videos showing beheadings, shootings and othercruel treatment of soldiers, police officers and civilians, with many people being targeted because of their ethnicity,including Shiites and Christians.

The one-million-strong Iraqi army, trained and equipped by the United States, has been largely ineffectual in the face ofthe ISIL assault.

Iraqi army helicopters fired at a university campus in Tikrit on Friday in an attempt to dislodge fighters holed up inside thebuilding.

The wanton murder of anyone not actively taking part in hostilities, including members of the armed forces who have laiddown their arms is considered to be a war crime and a crime against humanity.

Meanwhile a Pentagon official has confirmed that the US is flying armed drones over Baghdad, but that the flights are forthe protection of the US Embassy and not a precursor to air strikes.

An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the IslamicState of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executing dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members at an unknown location inthe Salaheddin province (AFP Photo / HO)

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Judy Craddock Smith 30.08.2014 00:27I am an American Christian. We do not look the other way. Our human rights advocates do not look the otherway. Just because our government seems to be blind doesn't mean that the people are. I don't understandWHY they don't fight back. Don't they understand that if they are not willing to fight for themselves that it isnearly impossible for us to send our sons and daughters to fight for them? FIGHT BACK DAMMIT!! Be on themlike white on rice and people will help. Just don't ask my sons to die fighting if you won't do the same foryourself. These dogs are demons. God is not present in their actions. Cowards!!!!

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Molloy Mangr 11.08.2014 22:43Realist 09.08.2014 21:10

Yes everyone who is nuts!

ISIS is just another CIA invention. Because, CIA must have enemy to legitimize its stranglehold over theAmerican population.Weapon Manufactures,Central Bankers,Oil Corporations and War Profiting in USAdo it for business purposes and profit.They will use anything just to start more conflicts and make gainsfrom it,everyone can see that by now.

Inez Deborah Emilia Altar 10.08.2014 18:41The fat one with the face from the Mongols is the only one who sits up he arrived Christian his ancestorsalready in the days of Hulagu Khan and Doquz Khatun and then follow scenes worthy of the regulatory penaltyof the Bolsheviks I do not mean the case of the machinery and rose petals in the air of White fingers

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