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UN warns of war crimes, atrocities as Iraqi militants battle for control of cities, towns
Original Publication Date: June 13, 2014 2:33AM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 10:56PM
GENEVA – The U.N. human rights chief is warning of “murder of all kinds” and other war crimes in the fast-deteriorating Iraqi war zone, where her office says the number of those killed in recent days may run into the hundreds and the number of wounded could approach 1,000.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says her office has received reports that Iraqi army soldiers as well as 17 civilians in a single street in Mosul had been rounded up and killed by militants.
Pillay said in a statement Friday that her office also is hearing of summary executions and extrajudicial killings as fighters from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant overran a succession of major Iraqi towns and cities this week.
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