Posted on 05/29/2015 6:57:53 PM PDT by markomalley
Iraq has so far found the remains of nearly 500 people believed to have been executed by ISIL near Tikrit last year in what is known as the Speicher massacre.
“We have exhumed the bodies of 470 Speicher martyrs from burial sites in Tikrit,” health minister Adila Hammoud said on Thursday.
Ms Hammoud said the figure of 470 was not final.
“The work to exhume Speicher victims continues.”
Last June, armed men belonging or allied to ISIL abducted hundreds of young, mostly Shiite recruits from Speicher military base, just outside the city of Tikrit.
They were then lined up in several locations and executed one by one, as shown in pictures and footage later released by extremist group.
Some were pushed into the Tigris river, others hastily buried in locations that were discovered when government and allied forces retook Tikrit from the extremists about two months ago.
The highest estimated death toll for one of the worst atrocities committed by ISIL stands at 1,700.
The exhumed remains came from four burial sites, including one which contained 400 bodies, said Ziad Ali Abbas, the chief doctor at Baghdad’s main morgue.
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Spent a year there between 2007 and 2008. Sickening. Thanks Obie (for nothing).
Not to worry. The United Nations will punish the culprits.
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