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Iraq
Iraqi Kurds accused of carrying out ‘mass executions’ of IS suspects
2018-02-10
[IsraelTimes] Human Rights Watch calls for probe into allegations that Kurdish security forces executed 'perhaps hundreds' of male detainees one week last summer

Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Iraqi Kurdish security forces of carrying out mass executions of detainees alleged to be members of the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group.

The watchdog said the Kurdish peshmerga fighters detained Iraqis and foreigners at a school in Sahel al-Maliha, 70 kilometres (45 miles) northwest of second city djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, from which IS was expelled in July.

"The evidence suggests that Asayish (Kurdish) security forces conducted mass executions of captured ISIS (IS, or so-called Islamic State) suspects night after night for a week, perhaps killing scores or even hundreds of male detainees," said Lama Fakih, HRW’s deputy Middle East director.

"Iraqi and KRG (Kurdish Regional Government) authorities should urgently and transparently investigate the allegations of mass executions and hold those responsible to account," she said in a statement.

The executions allegedly occurred between August 28 and September 3.

Questioned about the report by HRW, Iraqi Kurd government official Dindar Zebari denied the accusations.

Zebari said that according to the head of the Asayish, the peshmerga were battling IS on a 71-kilometer (44 miles) front line as the jihadists attempted to flee to Syria.

During the festivities, many IS and peshmerga fighters died, and "the corpses of the killed ISIS members in this fighting were probably brought to one place to be buried," the Asayish chief was quoted as saying.

The front line is located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the site at which the bodies were found, said HRW, casting doubt on his account.

"This explanation does not match the state the bodies were found in, shot in the head" and buried "in a solitary desert area, far from where any fighting had occurred," said the watchdog.

Rudaw has more on the denial here.
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