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09-05-2014, 12:50 AM
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Re: ISIS Shoots 160 Captured Syrian Soldiers
According to Ali Khadim, an Iraqi soldier and Shia survivor of one of the IS massacres, after militants stormed Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city on June 10 they continued their offensive south toward Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown. In Tikrit, chaos and fear enveloped Camp Speicher, where Kadhim, a trainee who had joined the army just 10 days before Mosul fell, was posted. The U.S.-trained army officers then panicked and fled. Khadim said, “we were alone. So we decided to flee, because there were no officers.” He and his comrades took off their uniforms, put on civilian clothes – track suits and sandals for many of them – and, in a large group that Kadhim said amounted to about 3,000 soldiers, started walking out the front gates. It was a terrible decision and a cruel fate: To this day, Camp Speicher has not fallen to the militants. Had Kadhim and his friends stayed where they were, they would almost certainly have been safe. They thought they would walk as far as Baghdad, almost 120 miles south. But just a few miles down the road, near Tikrit University, the men ran in to a group of about 50 Islamic State fighters in armored vehicles, he said. “They told us, ‘Don’t worry, we will take you to Baghdad,’” Kadhim said. “They tried to make us feel safe. “They tricked us.” Packed into trucks, the men were taken to the Tikrit palace grounds. Over the next three days, the militants carried out wave after wave of killings around the palace and elsewhere in Tikrit. Human Rights Watch, which analyzed satellite imagery and examined photographs released by Islamic State, says it has confirmed that 560 to 770 men, at the least, were killed during that stretch. The group acknowledged that the total number may be higher still, and Islamic State itself put the number of men it killed there at 1,700. http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09...isis-massacre/ |
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09-11-2014, 05:49 PM
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Re: ISIS Shoots 160 Captured Syrian Soldiers
At some point, people just lose hope and accept the fact that they're going to die. This phenomenon plays out even with the genocides of entire nations, when the Armenians and Jews were sent to their deaths most of the time they lost hope and just accepted they were about to die. Even the killers are sometimes surprised that people accept their deaths so easily and like lambs being led to the slaughter. |