Man accused of Camp Speicher atrocities arrested: Iraqi security org

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Security Media Cell (SMC) on Friday announced the arrest of 18 people wanted by its judiciary courts, one of whom is suspected of involvement in the 2014 Camp Speicher Massacre.

The wanted individuals were arrested per warrants issued in 2015 after they had fled abroad.

After taking control of Tikrit on June 12, 2014, ISIS executed between 1,095 and 1,700 Iraqi cadets, who were captured outside the camp after they had fled it en masse.

So far, Iraqi authorities have recovered the bodies of 1,153 victims, of whom 884 have been handed over to their families after DNA tests.

Legal efforts are ongoing to hold the perpetrators and accomplices accountable for these crimes. Iraqi judicial authorities have reportedly handed out death sentences to more than 50 people believed to have participated in the atrocity, albeit that tally was last reported in June 2022. 

ISIS declared its self-styled caliphate that extended across large swathes of Iraq and Syria after capturing Mosul and symbolically dismantled the so-called Sykes-Picot border between Iraq and Syria. 

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Editing by Dastan Muwaffaq