UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has warned that recent mass executions by al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) may amount to “war crimes,” particularly with reports of them mass executing prisoners at sites they were about to lose in Raqqa earlier this month.
AQI has been executing captives for months, of course, but as fighting with rival rebel factions has picked up there have been reports of summary executions by the scores several times a week.
Rival rebels that have taken AQI bases where prisoners were held have reported finding large numbers of recently executed people, suggesting AQI just executes people en masse rather than abandoning those sites.
The dead have included a number of civilians, including at least four journalists, but more recently the executions have centered around captured fighters for other factions, including rival al-Qaeda faction Jabhat al-Nusra.
killers killing killers.
Al-Queada is a terrorist group, a Saudis barbarians, they don't have a country nor there is a established place in this world for them to be prosecuted for anything, but there is a solution to this problem, UN can start the process in prosecuting those that feeds these barbarians and those who supports the feeders.
Like Saudis and in general CCG, then Turkish Erdogan government and then the Swedish king who appreciate the Saudis so much that he had to travel to Saudi Arabia given a prize to the most brutal regime on this planet. You want democracy to function, start changing the reasons stoping democracy.
Are these the guys Kerry is asking to attend the Geneva peace talks.?
where was the UN when these rebels were eating human organs and beheading every prisoners they take captive, was that not a war crime.?
That puts the "duh" in al-CIA-duh.
May be McCain and Graham will pass around the hat to raise funds for these "freedom fighters." As bad as Asad may be, our government is creating something a lot worse.
I doubt McLame and Graham will receive much $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for those "freedom fighters".
Yes, "may be" war crimes. Innocent until proven guilty. However, can't you say, "if these allegations are correct, these ARE war crimes?" I mean, it's pretty obvious that the acts are war crimes…
BTW, this is at least the fifth time the USA has backed or supported Al Qaeda in some way: Afghanistan 1980s, Bosnia and Kosovo 1990s, Libya 2011, Syria ongoing.