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Iraqi security accused of executing prisoners

A rights group has said Iraqi security forces and Shia militia members have been involved in executing at least 255 prisoners in six cities and villages. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Saturday that Sunni prisoners were killed as Shia fighters and Iraqi soldiers fled advancing Islamic State rebels. At least eight […]

Al Jazeera reports:

A rights group has said Iraqi security forces and Shia militia members have been involved in executing at least 255 prisoners in six cities and villages. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Saturday that Sunni prisoners were killed as Shia fighters and Iraqi soldiers fled advancing Islamic State rebels.

At least eight of those who were killed were boys under age 18, the group says.  According to HRW, five massacres of prisoners were documented between June 9 and 21 in Mosul, Tal Afar in northern Nineveh province, in Baquba and Jumarkhe in Diyala province, and in Rawa in Anbar province.