Massgrav detected by the IS occupation – Aftonbladet

Mass graves have been discovered in the newly liberated Tikrit in Iraq.

The city was occupied previously by terrorist sect Islamic State contends that killed 1,700 Iraqi soldiers.

The massacre took place in June last year.

In June last year captured the Islamic State the Iraqi city of Tikrit, north of the capital Baghdad. The city is the provincial capital of Saladin and the occupation has been recognized as a gain in prestige for IS rampage in Iraq. The terrorist sect believed that during the conquest killed 1,700 Iraqi soldiers who were captured outside the military base “Camp Speicher”. Human rights organizers tion Human Rights Watch says that at least 800 Shiite soldiers were killed in what is called the “largest” incident.

The men should have been split into smaller groups after having been told that they would be. The shot then after being forced down on her stomach in a ditch. Others were taken to a berth on the Tigris where they got a head shot and dumped in the river.

decayed bodies

Now it seems fears about how bloody takeover was to have come true. Mass graves have been found in Tikrit, inside the presidential palace complex in which Saddam Hussein’s former residence, reports CNN.

The bodies found have been decayed and been a long time in the soil. The bodies have been transferred to Baghdad and shall DNA is analyzed so as to determine identities.

According to the Reuters news agency has about twenty bodies found. When the first bodies were found shot ten Iraqi soldiers salute and the national anthem was played.

Many graves are believed to still not be found and the pressure on the government to come with a vengeance is great. Total believed to between ten and twelve mass graves exist. Efforts to find all the bodies are believed to be lengthy. According to Iraqi sources like CNN talked to believed to work take several weeks, if not months.

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Families of soldiers found dead or still missing demanded answers as to what happened . Some argue that the soldiers received orders to flee from the military base in civilian clothes and then captured. This has been firmly rejected by Iraqi politicians and military says the men deserted.

On Monday, Iraq’s prime minister Haider al-Abadi said that revenge is not the way to go, after the data on the mass graves became known.

The Conquest bitter aftertaste

After a long and drawn-out counter-offensive could Iraqi government forces, using among other Shiite militiamen and Kurdish troops withdraw Tikrit last week.

The gain was called “success” of the Iraqi Prime Minister, but the conquest got a bitter taste after reports of massive looting and bloody reprisals against captured the IS-men.