UN Rights Chief Decries Abuse Against Men Fleeing Fallujah

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. human rights chief says there are "extremely distressing, credible reports" that Iraqis fleeing Fallujah are facing physical abuse and even summary executions as they escape the city held by Islamic State militants.

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Tuesday cited witness accounts that armed groups backing Iraqi security forces have detained some men and teenage boys leaving Fallujah with force that at times "degenerates" into abuse. The city is about 70 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad.

"There are extremely distressing, credible reports that some people who survive the terrifying experience of escaping from ISIL, then face severe physical abuse once they reach the other side," he said in a statement from his office in Geneva.

Zeid acknowledged that Iraqi forces have a "legitimate interest in vetting individuals fleeing ISIL-controlled areas" to make sure they don't pose a security risk, but said authorities or officially designated personnel should do so.

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1. The barbarism of places like Iraq and Afghanistan today, Syria and Libya, the Mexican frontier.

Their is nothing these butchers won't resort to. It's a sadistic hell in such places. Odd that a lot of it has to do with "the USA's involvement"?

[Feeling the Bern]

2. Do you think ISIS cares what the UN says?

[Sunlei]

4. Iraqi security are grabbing or killing any of 50,000 people who try to 'escape'

[Sunlei]

3. everyone in Fallujah is exterminated AGAIN. No more rebuilding that town, make a big headstone with

a million names.