[Iran Press TV] Iraqi forensic specialists continue to exhume remains of scores of victims of the 2014 massacre by Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
ISIS snuffies at the Speicher air force camp in the north-central province of Salahuddin.
"So far, we handed 550 bodies to their families, 200 of them are now subject for DNA testing. 150 victims were discovered two weeks ago and we are expecting to find more. I would say the total number of victims will exceed 1,000," said Moeen al-Kadhimi, a senior commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi in Arabic.
On June 12, 2014, ISIS snuffies killed about 1,700 Iraqi air force cadets after kidnapping them from Speicher camp, a former US base, situated on the outskirts of the placid provincial capital Tikrit, the hometown of Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein. There were reportedly about 4,000 unarmed cadets in the camp when it came under attack by the holy warriors.
Shortly afterward, the attackers took the victims to the complex of presidential palaces and killed them. The snuffies also threw some of the bodies into the river. The massacre was filmed by ISIS and broadcast on social media, showing the hostages as they were mostly lined up in various locations and slaughtered.
The horrific mass killing incident sparked outrage across the Arab country and partially fueled the mobilization of the PMU.
Tikrit was recaptured from ISIS in March 2015. During clean-up operations in the northern part of the city, Iraqi forces found the location of the 2014 carnage.