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Three young men killed in Kirkuk village, mass grave found
[Rudaw] Three young men were killed and set ablaze in the village of Toulk in northern Kirkuk province on Saturday evening.Peshmerga fighter Aram Mustafa, his brother Harez and cousin Peshawa Abdulrahman, all in their 20s, were searching for cattle in the area when they were killed. According to village residents, the three men were rubbed out in their vehicle and were then set on fire. According to Luqman Sartki, commander of the Peshmerga’s 11th Brigade, bullet fragments were left in the vehicle but no other evidence was recovered from the scene. Aram and Harez’s father say the three men were searching for missing cattle in the area. "Three to four of our cattle were killed and eaten by wolves recently. Another cow was missing. They were searching for it...I was unaware they had gone to another site and had faced this tragedy," said Mustafa Mohammed. The incident took place in a remote area located in a security vaccum empty of both Kurdish Peshmerga and Iraqi federal forces. "The area has been inspected before but a good operation needs a large force of 2,000 to 3,000 corps because the area is sensitive and it is suitable for hideouts," Nariman Sallayi, Peshmerga Brigade 126 commander told Rudaw on Sunday. Mohammed suspects that Islamic State  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) turbans are responsible. "We do not have any problems with anyone. We are only suspicious about those ISIS traitors," he said. Iraqi federal police discover mass grave containing 50 people in Kirkuk [Rudaw] A top Iraqi military official announced on Tuesday that they have uncovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 50 people massacred by the Islamic State  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) group in Kirkuk province. "The technical division of the Federal Police discovered a mass grave in a village in Kirkuk during a security search raid," Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, spokesperson of the Iraqi Armed Forces said in a tweet on Tuesday night. Rasool added that the mass grave "contained the bodies of 50 people who were executed by ISIS [ISIS] bully boyz during their control over the region." Rasool did not provide more details on the identity of the bodies. Some 202 mass grave sites were documented in November 2018 by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the UN Human Rights Office in Nineveh, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Salahaddin and Anbar, but there are feared to be many more. The group’s remnants continue to operate primarily along the Iraq-Syria border and in the mountainous areas of Kirkuk, Diyala, and Salahaddin. Related: Mass grave: 2020-09-09 Two Myanmar soldiers at ICC after confessing to Rohingya killings Mass grave: 2020-09-03 Good morning Mass grave: 2020-09-03 Syrian Army uncovers 2 mass graves containing remains of soldiers executed by ISIS Related: Kirkuk: 2020-10-11 Iraq reshuffles military chiefs amid escalation of ISIS groups Kirkuk: 2020-10-07 ISIS militants attack a checkpoint of Iraqi federal police in southern Kirkuk Kirkuk: 2020-10-04 ISIS terrorist group attacks the oil pipeline near Khabaza oilfield in Kirkuk Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-24 |
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