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Islamic State released new footage of its June 2014 massacre of hundreds of mostly Shi’ite military recruits in Tikrit, northern Iraq.
Highest estimates claim 1,700 cadets were captured and executed by IS militants at the Speicher military base near Tikrit. The massacre took place at various locations, mostly in the city’s former presidential palace complex.
The 22-minute video posted on jihadist forums, which includes both new and previously released footage, shows hundreds of executions, providing further evidence of the scope of the atrocity.
Some of the victims are shown pleading for their lives, attempting to explain they had only just joined the security forces.
The killing went on into the night and the video shows an excavator being used to move piles of bodies.
Around 600 bodies have been exhumed since government and allied fighters retook Tikrit from IS insurgents in April but many of the victims were dumped in the Tigris river.
Islamic State released new footage of its June 2014 massacre of hundreds of mostly Shi’ite military recruits in Tikrit, northern Iraq.
Highest estimates claim 1,700 cadets were captured and executed by IS militants at the Speicher military base near Tikrit. The massacre took place at various locations, mostly in the city’s former presidential palace complex.
The 22-minute video posted on jihadist forums, which includes both new and previously released footage, shows hundreds of executions, providing further evidence of the scope of the atrocity.
Some of the victims are shown pleading for their lives, attempting to explain they had only just joined the security forces.
The killing went on into the night and the video shows an excavator being used to move piles of bodies.
Around 600 bodies have been exhumed since government and allied fighters retook Tikrit from IS insurgents in April but many of the victims were dumped in the Tigris river.
