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| Iraq |
| Traces of ISIS ‘mass grave’ rot in Iraqi town |
| 2016-11-11 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] On the banks of the Tigris river, men sit and watch, smiling with relief as Iraqi coppers, soldiers and local youths bathe in muddy spring water in a town that was recaptured from ISIS just a few days ago. Across town, there is a grimmer scene: two stinking corpses, their feet tied together, rot in the sun in a large dirt quadrant walled by four man-made earth berms. One body is intact. The other has parts missing. A severed head lies next to them, its skull mostly visible. What appear to be several other corpses protrude from the dirt and detritus. A policeman cautions not to approach or touch the bodies, in case they are booby-trapped. Narrow, shallow trenches up to 20 yards long have been dug in some parts of the quadrant. Residents of the town, Hammam al-Alil, say this is the site of a mass grave which Iraqi forces reported to have uncovered on Monday after driving out ISIS bad boys. Iraq has launched an investigation into what would be further evidence of the ultra-hardline group’s brutality against people living in areas under its control since it established its self-styled "caliphate" across much of northern Iraq and Syria more than two years ago. |
| Posted by:Fred |