Today, Haider al-Abadi, the Iraqi Prime Minister, said that
the perpetrators of human rights abuses among his security forces and Shi’a
militia will be held accountable for their actions. He stated that they needed
to crack down on the abuses and excesses of the small minority of fighters that
do not follow the government’s policies. He also stated that these allegations
of criminal conduct are being investigated. However, he never mentioned whether
the fighters guilty of ISIS-like crimes have been brought to justice yet. The
people involved will be held accountable and prosecuted with the fullest weight
of the law. He stated in his speech that the government’s priority was reducing
ethic, secretariat tensions and divisions in Iraq. ABC News also confronted the
Iraqi military for photos that had been posted on social media of committing
war crimes. One photo shows a person from the military stepping on two severed
heads. Another showed a young boy being gunned down in cold blood.
The Iraqi
government needs to stop delaying prosecuting these people. The war crimes that
committed and found in the photos on social media were discovered in February.
There has not been anything done with this. Some of these photos were extremely
horrifying, containing photos of beheadings, torturing and executions and
should not have been posted anywhere. They claim to have a good Iraqi justice
system, however nothing has been done to serve justice. Certain units of the Iraqi Security Forces
have been barred from receiving weapons and training because of their human
rights violations in the past.
Emily Burris
11:44 pm
04/16/2015
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