Iraqi forces claim found 365 IS bodies in Baiji graves
Iraqi forces
said Wednesday they found 19 different mass graves containing the bodies
of 365 fighters from the Islamic State group in the reconquered town of
Baiji. An army officer confirmed a large number of IS bodies had been
discovered in mass graves, but could not say how many and mentioned that
some had also been found in another neighbourhood. In a statement, the
security forces said that "the total number of graves discovered by the
heroes of the Popular Mobilisation is 19".
Iraqi forces claim found 365 IS bodies in Baiji graves
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Smoke rises from the town of
Baiji, as Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Popular Mobilisation units,
fighting alongside Iraqi forces, advance during a military operation
against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on October 18, 2015 (AFP
Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
An army officer confirmed a large number of IS bodies had been discovered in mass graves, but could not say how many and mentioned that some had also been found in another neighbourhood.
In a statement, the security forces said that "the total number of graves discovered by the heroes of the Popular Mobilisation is 19".
It
said the mass graves were found in the Asri neighbourhood of Baiji, 200
kilometres (120 miles) north of Baghdad, and contained a total of "365
bodies of Daesh terrorists".
Daesh is an Arab acronym for IS.It was not clear how long the bodies had been buried there nor how all of them were identified as fighters.
Baiji and its nearby refinery -- once the country's largest but now extensively destroyed -- has been the scene of almost uninterrupted fighting in the past 16 months.
Iraqi forces led by the Popular Mobilisation, an umbrella group dominated by Tehran-backed Shiite militias, have fully retaken the area in recent days.
Some
key flashpoints in the area changed hands many times since IS launched a
sweeping offensive across Iraq in June 2014 but the broad operation
launched about 10 days ago appears to have secured victory for the
security forces.
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Iraqi forces claim found 365 IS bodies in Baiji graves
So, what does this mean? does this mean Shiite fighters executed ISIS fighters and put them in mass graves?
Does this mean ISIS executed them for some real or imagined infraction?
Likely it would take some kind of war crimes trial to figure all this out.
Any of these things could be true. Also ISIS executed whole tribes of Sunni tribesmen too, down to the last man, woman and child(they extincted whole tribes). So, any remaining tribesmen that could would also execute all ISIS soldiers they could too.
So, who knows what really happened?
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