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HRW: 350 prisoners ‘disappeared’ from Iraqi Kurdistan prisons
 Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three-hundred and fifty prisoners have disappeared from prisons of the northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region, Human Rights Watch reported on Thursday, fearing that their disappearance was perpetrated by security authorities.Those missing are mostly Sunni Arabs who were displaced by war at their home regions and moved to Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... as well as residents of the city, according to the organization . Those were "detained by the regional government’s security forces, the Asayish, on suspicion of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (also known as ISIS) affiliation after the regional forces took control of Kirkuk in June 2014", it reported. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-22 |
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