On Thursday, Richer told the UN Security Council that evidence collected from mass graves contained the remains of victims of executions carried out in Badoush Central Prison, and from survivors, detailed preparations for the attack by senior members of ISIS followed an attack on the morning of Saturday, June 10 from that year.
He added, “The arrested prisoners were taken to locations close to the prison, sorted and separated on the basis of their religion, humiliated and then systematically killed at least 1,000 prisoners.”
Investigators’ analysis of digital, documentary, survivor and forensic evidence, including ISIS documents, identified a number of members of the extremist group, also known as ISIS, as responsible for the crimes, Richer said.
He added that as a result of the investigations, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by ISIS (UNITAD) concluded that ISIS committed crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, torture, enforced disappearance, persecution and other inhumane acts in Badush prison in addition to “crimes against humanity”. The war of willful killing, torture, inhuman treatment and outrages upon personal dignity.
ISIS fighters captured Iraqi cities and declared their so-called caliphate over a wide swathe of land in Syria and Iraq in 2014.
He announced the official defeat of the organization in Iraq in 2017, after a bloody 3-year battle that left tens of thousands dead and cities in ruins, but the organization’s sleeper cells continue to launch attacks in separate areas of Iraq.
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