He also said the armed group successfully developed chemical weapons and used mustard gas. In May, Ritscher’s predecessor, Karim Khan, told the Security Council that investigators had found “clear and compelling evidence” that ISIL fighters committed genocide against the Yazidi minority in 2014. On Friday, at least three civilians and seven Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed in an attack blamed on ISIL. The group was formally declared defeated in Iraq in 2017 following a three-year bloody battle that left tens of thousands dead and cities in ruins, but its sleeper cells continue to launch attacks in different parts of Iraq.
ISIL fighters seized Iraqi cities and declared a self-styled caliphate in a large swath of territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014. 4sMIuL1lDeĪs a result of the investigations, he said the UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by the Islamic State in Iraq (UNITAD) has concluded that ISIL committed “crimes against humanity of murder, extermination, torture, enforced disappearances, persecution and other inhumane acts” at Badush prison as well as the “war crimes of willful killing, torture, inhumane treatment, and outrage upon personal dignity”. SA Ritscher #UNSC: I can announce that in Badush Prison attacks, #ISIL members committed #WarCrimes & #CrimesAgainstHumanity including, murder, extermination, torture, enforced disappearances, persecution, willful killing, torture, inhumane treatment, & other inhumane acts.
Ritscher said the investigators’ analysis of digital, documentary, survivors and forensic evidence, including ISIL documents, has identified a number of members from the group who were responsible for the crimes. “At least 1,000 predominantly Shia prisoners were then systematically killed.” “Prisoners captured were led to sites close to the prison, separated based on their religion and humiliated,” he said. The head of a United Nations team investigating ISIL’s (ISIS) atrocities in Iraq has said the armed group’s fighters committed crimes against humanity and war crimes at a prison in the northern city of Mosul, where at least 1,000 mostly Shia Muslim prisoners were systematically killed seven years ago.Ĭhristian Ritscher told the UN Security Council on Thursday that evidence collected from mass graves containing the remains of victims of executions carried out at Badush Central Prison and from survivors shows detailed preparations of the attack by senior ISIL members followed by an assault on the morning of June 10, 2014.
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