Several online photos show ISIL atrocities in Iraq

Rasa - New pictures have emerged online of atrocities and mass killing of Iraqi soldiers at the hands of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

News ID: 912

Date: 15 June 2014 - 20:47

Rasa News Agency reports - ISIL militants are believed to have taken the pictures in Iraq’s northern Salahuddin Province.

They show dozens of men in both plain clothes and Iraqi army uniforms being made to lie in several ditches. Other pictures show the Takfiri militants shooting at the men.

According to a militant website that posted the photos, the killing is to avenge the death of ISIL commander al-Bailawi who was killed during last week’s clashes in Mosul.

Iraq’s military spokesman General Qassim al-Moussawi has confirmed the authenticity of the photos. He says there are more reports about the mass murder of captured Iraqi soldiers.

This comes as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has recently condemned reports of summary executions and extra-judicial killings by al-Qaeda-linked militants in various parts of Iraq.

She also expressed her worries about the deteriorating situation in the militancy-riddled country. Pillay said the number of people killed in summary executions and extrajudicial killings "may run into the hundreds."

Several witness accounts and video clips have been released showing the grisly crimes perpetrated by the Takfiri terrorists against innocent civilians in the crisis-torn country.

Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups such as the ISIL have been also behind many of the deadly bomb attacks targeting both civilians and government institutions across Iraq in recent years.

Recently, a similar gruesome video was released, purportedly showing members of the ISIL Takfiri group brutally killing Shia Muslims in drive-by shootings in Iraq.

The ISIL militants have vowed to continue their raid toward Iraq's capital, Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said that the country’s security forces would confront the terrorists, calling the seizure of Mosul by militants a “conspiracy.”

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