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40 death sentences due to IS massacres in Iraq
A court in Baghdad has 40 alleged supporters of the “Islamic state” (IS) sentenced to death. You are in a massacre of the Terrormiliz in Tikrit have engaged.
Relatives mourn victims of the massacre: in the summer of 2015, the first death sentences pleases.
In connection with any of jihadists carried out massacres of hundreds of recruits in the immediate vicinity of the Iraqi city of Tikrit, the judiciary of the country again, dozens of death sentences imposed. The Central criminal court in Baghdad sentenced 40 of the 47 accused to death, as a Justizsprecher announced. The evidence would have the guilt of the accused occupied, it said in a statement. Seven defendants were therefore “lack of Evidence” acquitted.
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Iraq: mass grave in Tikrit discovered
Massacre as Propaganda
The spokesman did not specify whether the Convicted person before the court were present, nor to the alleged crime. Members of the Dschihadistenmiliz “Islamic state” (IS) and with them allied fighters had in mid-June 2014, hundreds of mostly Shi’ite Armeerekruten from the military base memory in Tikrit North of the capital Baghdad had been taken. The IS had a in June 2014 after his rise in Iraq, so boasted, near the city of Tikrit 1700 recruits to the army shot. These were of the military base Camp, memory fled, and had the extremists. Previously had the IS in the course of an Offensive wide parts of the country conquered. The human rights organization Human Rights Watch estimated the number of Killed up to 770.
After the massacre, were the jihadists of the pictures and Videos on the Internet that the murder of the men show. Some of the bodies were thus to be found in the Tigris river thrown, others buried in mass graves. After the liberation Tikrits discovered by Iraqi authorities in April of 2015, at least 14 mass graves where victims of the shootings were buried.
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Iraq: battle for Tikrit
Criticism of already imposed Todesuteilen
The massacre was in Iraq and around the world for horror, taken care of and helped support in the fight against the jihadists to mobilize. Relatives of the victims had 2014 the Parliament in Baghdad, stormed and demanded that the responsible officers accountable. Some high-ranking soldiers in front of the IS fled, and the unarmed recruits left behind.
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In a first process in connection with the crime were in July last year, already 24 defendants were sentenced to death. They all denied, in the massacre involved. Some said at the time not in Tikrit stopped. Others declared that their confessions were under torture have come to pass. The London-based human rights organization Amnesty International and other Rechtsgruppen had the procedure criticized.
pab/kle (afpd, dpa, rtre)