Footage leaked by an Iraqi soldier in mid-August 2014, uncovers repeated crimes in another new context, Diyala, where lawlessness presides.
Government and accompanying militia forces interrogate men clad in local dress, covered in blood smatterings. The armed forces ask the men whether they had seen Islamic State members or tribal fighters, or whether they themselves possessed arms. One man responds by saying “if I owned a weapon I would have fixed my broken down car”.
The armed men from behind the camera continue to push harder for answers. In the midst of the chaos one of the men interrogated tries to remain calm, whilst the man beside him is slowly hit by a barrage of bullets, a fate which soon meets him as well.
Government and accompanying militia forces interrogate men clad in local dress, covered in blood smatterings. The armed forces ask the men whether they had seen Islamic State members or tribal fighters, or whether they themselves possessed arms. One man responds by saying “if I owned a weapon I would have fixed my broken down car”.
The armed men from behind the camera continue to push harder for answers. In the midst of the chaos one of the men interrogated tries to remain calm, whilst the man beside him is slowly hit by a barrage of bullets, a fate which soon meets him as well.
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