80 Bodies Discovered at Iraq’s Camp Speicher Massacre Site
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Iraqi forensic specialists reportedly found the remains of scores of victims of the June 2014 massacre by Takfiri Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] terrorists at an air force camp in the country's north-central province of Salahuddin.
Fazel al-Qarawi, a human rights specialist, told Arabic-language al-Forat news agency on Tuesday that experts from the Iraqi Establishment of Martyrs and Health Ministry found 80 bodies inside former dictator Saddam Hussein's palace compound in Tikrit, located 140 kilometers northwest of the capital Baghdad.
The remains, which were found submerged in Tigris River under tree branches, were brought out by a group of divers and transferred to the provincial department of forensic sciences for DNA testing.
On June 12, 2014, Daesh terrorists killed around 1,700 Iraqi air force cadets after kidnapping them from Camp Speicher, a former US base. There were reportedly around 4,000 unarmed cadets in the camp when it came under attack by the militants.
Following the abductions, the attackers took the victims to the complex of presidential palaces and killed them. The terrorists also threw some of the bodies into the river.
The massacre was filmed by Daesh and broadcast on social media.
An investigation committee later revealed that 57 members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party had aided Daesh terrorists in the massacre.
On August 21, 2016, Iraqi judiciary officials hung 36 men convicted of involvement in the carnage.
Tikrit was recaptured from Daesh in March 2015. During clean-up operations in the northern part of the city, Iraqi forces found the location of the 2014 carnage.
Iraqi armed forces are now engaged in a large-scale military operation in Mosul to rid the terror group of its last remaining stronghold in the Arab country.
Meanwhile, the commander of Nineveh Liberation Operation said tens of Daesh Takfiris have been killed in a string of airstrikes inside and on the outskirts of Mosul, located some 400 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah said on Tuesday that the military aircraft had bombed purported Daesh positions in the eastern and western quarters of Mosul, besides the city of Tal Afar, situated 63 kilometers west of Mosul, killing 80 militants.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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