Was reading some articles and I came across this event that I want to share with you.


It's about an ISIS massacre on Iraqi Cadet's in 2014. We all remember the blitz ISIS made across Iraq and Syria 2 summers ago. It made headlines around the world. Videos that showed us lines of men being marched to their death and mercilessly killed by ISIS members.

On 12 June 2014, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_ (ISIS) killed at least 1,566https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Rudaw-2 Shia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Air_Force cadets in an attack on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikrit. At the time of the attack there were between 4,000 and 11,000 unarmed cadets in the camp.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Buratha_News_Agency:_4000_soldiers-3 Alleged ISIS fighters singled out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia and non-Muslim cadets from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni ones and murdered them. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Iraq blamed the massacre on both ISIS and members from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_


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politician Mish'an al-Jubori stated: "Some of the chief officers of the
camp ordered the cadets to have a rest for 15 days and to go to their
families, with civilian clothes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Al_Wasat-5 While they were walking on the highway looking for a bus to take them near https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad. Then two buses being driven by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_Sabawi_Ibrahim, the son of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein's half brother, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabawi_Ibrahim_al-Tikriti,
stopped near them with 10 armed men inside of them. They told the
cadets that they were from the Arab tribes of Tikrit, and told them to
follow them until they find buses to get them to Baghdad.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Al_Wasat-5
Instead, several buses with ISIS members in it kidnapped them to
Al-Qusour Al-Re'asiya region (The Presidential Palaces), where they
committed the massacre."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_no Several survivors assured that their head officers in the camp forced them to leave it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Buratha_News_Agency:_4000_soldiers-3https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Al_Alam_Channel-6
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Bouckaert&a;amp;action=edit&redlink=1, the emergencies director for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch,
stated "The photos and satellite images from Tikrit provided a strong
evidence of a horrible war crime that needs further investigation. They
and other abusive forces should know that the eyes of Iraqis and the
world are watching".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Russia_Today-7
The HRW also said that ISIS posted on its websites many videos and
photographs showing how they beheaded, shot, and choked the victims
while they celebrated.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Russia_Today-7
The photos show masked ISIS fighters tying up the cadets and loading
them up on trucks, with other photographs showing ISIS fighters
executing dozens of the cadets, while they are lying down. Some cadets
faked their death, covering themselves up with blood and lying down, to
escape at night, just as survivor Ali Hussein Kadhim did who told his
story to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times.https://en.wiki
AftermathThe Iraqi government revealed that 57 members of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_ were a part of the massacre.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Al_Fajr-9
Although pictures showed that every armed man was from ISIS, the
government stated "Without any doubts and suspicion, all of these
criminals are from the banned Ba'ath Party."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_no The minister of defence, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%27dun_al-Dulaimi, stated that the massacre wasn't sectarian in nature.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Sout_al-Iraq-10 although, the spokesman of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Armed_Forces, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qasim_Atta&;amp;action=edit&redlink=1, stated that there are almost 11,000 cadets and soldiers missing from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher,
he also stated that thousands were executed in near the Presidential
Palaces, al-Bu Agail region and the Badoush prison by sectarian
violence.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Al_Baghdadia-11
On 2 September, more than 100 members of the families of the killed and missing cadets and soldiers broke into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Parliament and hit three of the security guards.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Al_Jazeera-12 After a day, a session started in the parliament with the attendance of representatives of the families and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%27dun_al-Dulaimi, along with other military officials to discuss the massacre.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Al_Jazeera_2-13


On 16 September, the Kurdish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asayish_%28Kurdistan_Regional_ arrested 4 people suspected to be involved in the massacre in southern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkuk_Governorate.https://en. An unnamed security source stated "The operation was executed by relying on intelligence information to arrest them."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_no


On 18 September, the Iraqi Human Rights ministry stated that as of 17
September, the total of missing soldiers and cadets was 1095,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_no
denying the most popular figure of 1700 soldiers having been killed.
The ministry added "The ministry relied in its statistics on spreading
forms on the families of the missing people in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad and the other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Iraq within its quest to document the crimes and violations that the terrorist group of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_ is committing towards our people."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_no The Iraqi government ordered to specialize $8,600 (that is, 10,000,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_dinar) for the families of the missing cadets.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-Al_Sumaria_1095-17
Following the Iraqi forces' victory over ISIS in Tikrit in early
April 2015, mass graves containing some of the murdered cadets were
located and the decomposed corpses began to be exhumed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-18
Two of the alleged perpetrators of the massacre were arrested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forssa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland
in December of 2015. The suspects were identified from ISIS propaganda
videos in which the executions of 11 men took place. Police did not
disclose whether the men had made applications for asylum in Finland.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre#cite_note-19

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