Iraq executes 36 men for massacre of military recruits near Tikrit

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Iraq executes 36 men for massacre of military recruits near Tikrit

 

 

TIKRIT: -- Iraq has executed by hanging 36 men who were convicted over the killings of up to 1,700 military recruits at former US base Camp Speicher near Tikrit in 2014.

 

The scale of the massacres committed by the men only became clear in 2015, when the base was recaptured by Iraqi forces from ISIL, which continues to control Iraq’s second city, Mosul.

 

Family members of the recruits, who were kidnapped before being put to death, were invited to witness to executions. At least 400 were shi’ites, seen as heretics byISIL, and the killings led to a surge in their numbers applying to join the Iraqi army.

 

Each victim was killed individually, thrown in the Tigris river, or buried alive. Evidence was uncovered in 2015 with the discovery of mass graves near Tikrit.

 

The UN has expressed concern at the legal process leading to the executions, which Iraq’s president has promised to speed up following last month’s car bomb in Baghdad which killed 300 people.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-08-22

[nottocus]

Hope it took them a long time to die.

[phantomfiddler]

Makes one ashamed to be human, but maybe these things are not human and should not be treated as such

[pkspeaker]

yes and of cource shiite milita's continue to conduct random massacres and are never brought to justice because the 'iraqi government' is beholden to them.  'iraq' should pull out of all sunni area's from ramadi to mosul because there is no way at this point the 2 area's can peacefully co-exist.  'iraq' has captured and re-lost these sunni area's at least 4 times.  The only reason 'iraq' continues this is because the US pays the bill, as soon as the money dry's up, 'iraq' will lose these area's for good.

Edited August 22, 2016 by pkspeaker

[Andaman Al]

it is all a complete mess in Iraq. Not sure how much more it can regress.