• About Us
  • Who Are We
  • Work With Us
Thursday, August 18, 2022
No Result
View All Result
NEWSLETTER
The Globe Post
39 °f
New York
44 ° Fri
46 ° Sat
40 ° Sun
41 ° Mon
No Result
View All Result
The Globe Post
No Result
View All Result
Home World Middle East

Amnesty Urges Iraq to Account for 643 Missing Boys and Men

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
06/03/21
in Middle East
Iraq

Iraqi soldiers secure buses transporting displaced families from the Habbaniyah camp in Iraq’s Anbar province. Photo: AFP

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Amnesty International on Thursday urged Iraq to reveal the whereabouts of 643 Sunni Muslim boys and men abducted five years ago by Shiite paramilitaries fighting the ISIS group.

The men and teenagers disappeared during an operation by the Hashed al-Shaabi in June 2016 to retake Fallujah in the western desert from the ISIS, which then held the country’s Sunni provinces.

The Hashed have since been integrated into Iraq’s state security forces.

Witnesses cited by Amnesty International said that on June 3 gunmen wearing Hashed uniforms “took an estimated 1,300 men and boys considered to be of fighting age away from their families”. 

“At sunset, at least 643 men and boys were boarded onto buses and a large truck. Their fate remains unknown” while the rest alleged they were tortured, the human rights watchdog said in a statement.

On June 5, Iraq’s then prime minister Haider al-Abadi established a committee to investigate disappearances and abuses during military operations to retake Fallujah.

“The committee’s findings have never been made public,” Amnesty said.

“For five years, the families of these men and boys have been living in anguish, not knowing the fate of their loved ones, or whether they are even alive,” said the London-based rights watchdog.

“The families deserve to know what happened to their loved ones. They deserve an end to their suffering.”

The Hashed denies having abducted or arbitrarily arrested people, but its commanders often claim to have jails packed with jihadists, without proving the prisoners really belong to ISIS.

Sunnis regularly claim to be discriminated against in post-ISIS Iraq, where thousands of them have been arrested and often sentenced to prison or death for belonging to ISIS, rightly or wrongly.

Today, the Iraqi government is under fire for closing camps for those displaced in the fight against the ISIS group.

“The government has closed 16 camps over the last seven months, leaving at least 34,801 displaced people without assurances that they can return home safely, get other safe shelter, or have access to affordable services,” Human Rights Watch said.

The displaced forced to leave their tent cities have often had their homes destroyed or are considered “terrorists” by the authorities and their communities, accusations “without any evidence”, HRW said in a statement.

ShareTweet
Staff Writer

Staff Writer

AFP with The Globe Post

Related Posts

US Syria raid
Middle East

ISIS Chief Blows Himself Up During US Raid in Syria

by Staff Writer
February 3, 2022
Yazidi trial
World

Germany Gives First Verdict to Call Out ISIS ‘Genocide’ Against Yazidis

by Staff Writer
November 30, 2021
Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani
Middle East

Anti-US Chants as Iraqis Mourn Commanders Killed A Year Ago

by Staff Writer
January 3, 2021
An Iraqi Kurdish woman wearing the Kurdish flag.
Middle East

Iraqi Kurds Look on as Israel Befriends Old Arab Foes

by Staff Writer
November 29, 2020
Mass protesters in Iraq.
World

A Year After Unprecedented Iraq Protests, What Has Changed?

by Staff Writer
September 29, 2020
Fleeing Yezidis
Middle East

Yezidi Children Freed From Is Haunted by Health Crisis: Amnesty

by Staff Writer
July 30, 2020
Next Post
Azerbaijan-Armenia

Mine Blast Kills Azerbaijani Reporters, Official Near Karabakh

Hungarians Protest PM Orban’s Chinese University Plan

Hungarians Protest PM Orban's Chinese University Plan

Recommended

Zelensky

Zelensky Calls on UN to ‘Ensure Security’ of Nuclear Plant

August 18, 2022
A demonstrator sprays paint over an upside-down portrait of Chinese leader Xi Jinping

China Use of Psychiatric Hospitals to Punish Activists ‘Widespread:’ Report

August 17, 2022
US President Donald Trump

Donald Trump Thanks You for Your Sacrifice

August 17, 2022
People carry their belonging on their heads while they walk on a flooded road following heavy rain downpour in Wawa in Ogun State southwest Nigeria

Deadly Floods Kill 50 in Northern Nigeria

August 17, 2022
Marina Ovsyannikova

Russian TV Journalist Faces Jail Time for Anti-Putin Protest

August 10, 2022
Mar-A-Lago raid

FBI Raid on Trump’s Home Ignites Political Firestorm

August 9, 2022

Opinion

US President Donald Trump

Donald Trump Thanks You for Your Sacrifice

August 17, 2022
Protesters stand with placards in front of the statue of India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, central London, after a demonstration outside the US Embassy

Considering the Patience of Gandhi for These Troubled Times

August 5, 2022
US President Donald Trump

Owning the Words and the Libs

June 16, 2022
Officers in Uvalde, Texas, stand outside Robb Elementary School near a makeshift memorial for the shooting victims

Child Sacrifice Makes a Comeback

June 3, 2022
A Lebanese election official stands at a polling station

New Group Threatens Lebanese Elections… and Potentially Middle East Peace

May 18, 2022
A man holding a gun

Safely Back in USA, Land of Guns and Burgers

May 2, 2022
Facebook Twitter

Newsletter

Do you like our reporting?
SUBSCRIBE

About Us

The Globe Post

The Globe Post is part of Globe Post Media, a U.S. digital news organization that is publishing the world's best targeted news sites.

submit oped

© 2018 The Globe Post

No Result
View All Result
  • National
  • World
  • Business
  • Interviews
  • Lifestyle
  • Democracy at Risk
    • Media Freedom
  • Opinion
    • Editorials
    • Columns
    • Book Reviews
    • Stage
  • Submit Op-ed

© 2018 The Globe Post