Iraqi forces allegedly kill and torture civilians south of Mosul
Baghdad — Iraqi government forces killed and tortured civilians south of Mosul, rights groups said on Thursday, the first such reports of alleged abuse in a US-backed campaign to retake the city from Islamic State (IS). Amnesty International said "up to six" people were found dead last month in the Shura and Qayyara sub-districts, who security forces suspected of ties to the ultra-hardline jihadist group that seized a third of Iraqi territory in 2014. "Men in federal police uniform have carried out multiple unlawful killings, apprehending and then deliberately killing in cold blood residents in villages south of Mosul," said Lynn Maalouf, deputy director for research at Amnesty International’s Beirut office. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said at least 37 men suspected of being affiliated with Islamic State had been detained by Iraqi and Kurdish forces from checkpoints, villages, screening centres and camps for displaced people around Mosul and Hawija, further south.
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