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Iraq
Detaining families of ISIS members is unlawful, says HRW
2019-05-09
That’s certainly one opinion...
(IraqiNews) Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that the Iraqi plan to arrest 280,000 people, who are alleged to be the families of ISIS members is illegal, while pointed out that the majority of these families are women and kiddies.
Don’t lets forget that att least some of those women were enforcers for ISIS, and at least some of those kiddies were brainwashed to be Lion Cubs of Islam.
HRW called the Iraqi government to stop the plan, while revealed in a report published, today, that the plan was submitted by Iraq’s Implementation and Follow Up National Reconciliation Committee in Iraq to Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.

The report quoted Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch saying, "The Iraqi government proposal to confine alleged families of ISIS members not only violates international law but is also contrary to the government’s stated aim of reconciling populations post-ISIS."

She also added, "Detaining families not accused of any crimes is a form of collective punishment that will fuel resentment and put the lives of thousands of people on endless hold."

Furthermore, the HRW stated that in a meeting on April 7, the committee’s president, Dr. Mohammed Salman al-Saadi, shared the plan’s draft it, and he said that it would affect all spouses, children, siblings, and parents of alleged ISIS members, whether the member is dead, disappeared, or in detention. Human Rights Watch raised its concerns with the proposal in letters to Abdul-Mahdi and President Barham Salih last Month.

It also pointed out that al-Saadi said that the Ministry of Immigration will build compounds outside the cities to accommodate the families of ISIS, while indicated that the families who will be detained there will be allowed to leave only in certain circumstances, such as going to the hospital or to courthouse.

He also mentioned that the "Sunni Endowment" will participate in this plan through the provision of mandatory programs to end extremism, while added that the Iraqi forces will guard these compounds.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  So is it okay to feed them to crocs while their families are forced to watch? What is the HRW stance?
Posted by: 3dc   2019-05-09 15:31  

#3  they make it up as they go
Posted by: chris   2019-05-09 07:05  

#2  Funny how we never see actual chapter & verse pertaining to which part(s) of 'international law' are being violated, isn't it?
Posted by: Raj   2019-05-09 06:24  

#1  HRW don't understand the Iraqi mindset then, or the dynami between sunni factions. All this os being done to simply re-assimilate the female ex-ISIS volunteers and their offspring into Iraqi society.

There will be some rudimentary 're-education', a few curbs and supervised living conditions for a few years, but then it's going to be back to the 'iraqi normal'.

If the world's governments really wanted to make a statement against sunni extremism they would have made an example out of ISIS by executing every POW from the war, every willing member of ISIS. The kiddies could have been re-assimilated through child protection and camps for the same.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-05-09 03:46  

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