After the conquest Mossuls it comes in the city to fighters, torture and mass executions of ISIS and their families. The government in Baghdad looks the other way. Also, the Anti-IS coalition under nothing, however, seems to be on.
The now 16-year-old Linda W. of the Saxon Pulsnitz belongs to the group of foreign IS fighters in the past week by Iraqi Anti-terrorism units in Mosul were arrested? The information is conflicting. The only thing is: If you have been arrested, you can talk of luck that she’s still alive.
Not alone, because at least some of the women from the 20-member group of explosives-contributed to your belt. Not alone, because according to the latest Figures of the non-governmental organization “Airwars” at least 2000 people by the bombing of the Anti-IS-Alliance were killed. But also because the Iraqi armed trusted forces to think only of the prisoners, IS torture and execution, but also to their families not to Report.
The 16-year-old German IS a supporter of Linda W. may have been arrested in Mosul
Corpses in the river
The micro-blogger “Mosul Eye’ claims, at least” on Twitter. To times the IS-rule over Mosul Mosul Eye “” at great personal risk information from the city on the Tigris river. To be published week of the beginning of the Mosul Eye “” well a disturbing Twitter Feed, with 38 individual tweets. In it, he accuses the Iraqi security forces, all of them still in the old city of Mosul encountered civilians than ISIS members and executing them in mass executions.
One reason, according to the “Mosul Eye”: There had been no Plan of how to deal with the families of IS families. Using social media to spread Videos of executions and torture of prisoners of war to let at least the conclusion that, in the houses battle for the old city of Mosul not only whole streets were destroyed, but also that the rules of international war law are disregarded. The British Guardian reported on the Samstagvon many corpses floating downstream of Mosul on the Tigris.
Acts of revenge against alleged IS members and their families were the security Council on Monday evening the topic in the UN. The special envoy of the United Nations for Iraq, Jan Kubis, expressed in New York, his concern about a “growing mood for collective punishment of families, associated with Daesh (IS)”.
Perpetrators go open
Belkis Wille, Human Rights Watch (HRW) can confirm this. The Iraq expert, writes in an email to DW, numerous witnesses from the Front, have you described in detail executions and torture IS suspect. Worried will is mainly due to a Change in the mood: The Iraqi armed forces would not have the feeling that your deeds in secret.
Conversely, the HRW expert, have you never met a single government official in Baghdad, would have called for a serious investigation of the incidents. An adviser to the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi got on the 14. July, Human Rights Watch communicated upon request, the government will announce measures to be taken against the concerned officers. That’ll happen later, because that would interfere with the “present congratulatory messages on the victory,” how will quoted the officials.
Dangerous liberators: Some of the Iraqi soldiers cry out, apparently for revenge, and disregard the law
Will self knows not a single example of this that someone would have been called to account for torture, murder or extra-judicial executions to account. They stressed that the liberation Mossuls was a joint Operation of the Iraqi military and the U.S.-led Anti-IS Alliance. The coalition must ensure, therefore, that the troops, supported them with air strikes, adhere to the laws of war. The coalition could provide any air support for war crimes.
Zero-tolerance policy of the Iraqi military?
A spokesman for the Operation “Inherent Resolve” explained the DW, the coalition could not check the veracity of the reports. HRW had identified with satellite data the precise location of an execution, where soldiers beat a prisoner and then a cliff down to throw. In the Video you shoot to another man who is already on the ground.
After all, the military spokesman made it known that any violation of the war law was unacceptable and needed to be thoroughly and transparently investigated. Moreover, Prime Minister Abadi had announced a “Zero-tolerance policy towards misconduct of the Iraqi armed forces”. There was also a special Commission of inquiry into the incidents was launched.
Whether this Commission has made a great impression? Renad Mansour from the British Think Tank “Chatham House” attests to the Iraqi forces a sense of impunity. In addition, says Iraq expert at the DW Interview that the whole idea of the rule of Law is blurred. Mansour: “It is an extremely traumatized society without strong legal institutions, truth and reconciliation.” The soldiers believed, as the only justice, because the justice system is flawed.
Micro-blogger “Mosul Eye” sees a gloomy future: “This Chaos is destroying the reputation of the Iraqi armed forces. It is the IS directly for the benefit of, and the future Mossuls to the IS heavy strain.”