{"id":39949,"date":"2017-08-10T07:40:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T07:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39949"},"modified":"2017-08-10T07:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T07:40:29","slug":"iraq-sentences-27-men-death-roles-2014-speicher-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/iraq-sentences-27-men-death-roles-2014-speicher-massacre.html","title":{"rendered":"Iraq sentences 27 men to death for roles in 2014 Speicher massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Iraq sentences 27 men to death for roles in 2014 Speicher massacre<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Iraq sentences 27 men to death for roles in 2014 Speicher massacre:- Iraq sentenced 27 prisoners to death for their part in a 2014 massacre that killed as many as 1,700 men in ISIS-controlled territory, according to a statement released by Iraq Central Criminal Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;The Central Criminal Court issued a verdict to execute 27 defendants convicted of participating in the Speicher massacre,&#8221; Judge Abdul Sattar al-Beeraqdar, a spokesman for Iraq&#8217;s Higher Judicial Council, said in a statement released Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">However, Beeraqdar said the decision is &#8220;preliminary and can be appealed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">This is the second mass conviction relating to the so-called Speicher massacre committed by ISIS members in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">ISIS released videos after the massacre that showed a line of Iraqi military recruits being marched at gunpoint. Later, ISIS posted images showing mass murders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In 2016, Iraq hanged 36 people for taking part in the massacre. They were executed at Al-Hoot prison in Nasiriyah province, south of Baghdad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The killings have come to be known as the Speicher massacre because they took place at Camp Speicher, a former US base near Tikrit, after ISIS forces took control of the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The massacre was described by Human Rights Watch as the &#8220;largest reported incident&#8221; where &#8220;ISIS captured more than 1,000 soldiers fleeing Camp Speicher &#8230; then summarily executed at least 800 of them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A mass grave was uncovered in Tikrit in 2015, where as many as 1,700 bodies were recovered. 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