Iraq rights group documents worst ISIS crimes

تاريخ تاريخ النشر 30/01/2019
Iraq's Independent High Commission for Human Rights last month announced it has documented at least 2,000 of the most serious crimes committed by the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS).

This step precedes a visit from a UN team to Iraq, which will work with Iraqi experts to investigate these violations and gather further evidence.

The commission has documented more than 2,000 serious violations committed by ISIS elements during the group's three year rule in parts of Iraq, commissioner Fadel al-Gharawi told Diyaruna.

Major violations are categorized as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, with sub-categorizations that include denial of the right to live, religious persecution, violence against women and children, forced displacement and terrorization, as well as robbery and vandalism of national heritage sites.

Among the most violent crimes committed by ISIS is the 2014 Camp Speicher massacre in which more than 1,700 Iraqi recruits were killed in cold blood, and hundreds of others were executed at Badush prison.

Other ISIS crimes include the abduction and enslavement of around 5,000 Yazidi women and children, and the mass murder of hundreds of Mosul residents.

"We had previously raised these and other crimes to the Iraqi parliament and government, and we requested that they be documented so they could be used as evidence to prosecute ISIS within Iraq and on an international level," he said