UN claims IS executes scores more in Mosul
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ISLAMIC State fighters have executed scores more people around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul this week and are reported to be stockpiling dangerous chemicals in civilian areas, the UN human rights office said yesterday.
A mass grave with over 100 bodies found in the town of Hammam al-Alil was one of several IS killing grounds, spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said. She cited testimony gleaned from sources including a man who had survived an execution of some 50 former Iraqi soldiers by playing dead.
“Clearly there are many other killing fields. We also have reports of other mass graves which we haven’t yet been able to verify,” Shamdasani said, mentioning sites at Mosul airport and the village of Tal al-Thahab.
Iraqi troops had found large stockpiles of sulphur and there were credible reports that Islamic State had used “phosphor projectiles” over Qayyara, close to Mosul, Shamdasani said.
“Similar credible reports in Mosul state that they have placed sulphur pits in close proximity to civilians,” she said.
The UN’s sources of information include people living in IS-held areas who risk their lives to speak out.
“We get so much information,” Shamdasani said, without going into details. “We’ve been in Iraq a very long time.”
Shamdasani said 40 civilians were reportedly shot on Tuesday for “treason and collaboration” with Iraqi government forces, and their bodies hung from electrical poles around Mosul.
The same day a 27-year-old man was shot for using a mobile phone, Shamdasani said. Six others had been hanged on October 20 for hiding SIM cards, and 20 more were reportedly shot on Wednesday for leaking information to the Iraqi security forces.
Islamic State had deployed what it calls “sons of the caliphate” wearing explosive belts in the alleys of Old Mosul.
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