18, July 2017 War Crimes in Mosul
According to “Airwars” and Amnesty International’s, report "At Any Cost: The Civilian Catastrophe in West Mosul, Iraq," war crimes may have been committed by the U.S. Coalition forces and certainly by the demonic ISIS.
The scale of civilian deaths is huge. Amnesty accuses Iraqi and coalition forces of inflicting massive harm on civilians during the battle for west Mosul. Relentless bombing using explosive and highly imprecise weapons killed and injured thousands of civilians trapped in the city.
Amnesty reported it was common for people to be full of shrapnel and not even seek medical attention. Iraqi forces were consistently using IRAMs, improvised rocket-assisted munitions. These basically functioned as flying IEDs. These were flung into neighborhoods randomly killing scores of civilians. International law forbids such weapons being used in populated areas.
ISIS rounded up civilians in buses and trucks and forced them to move into conflict zones serving as human shields marking an historic low in warfare.
Civilians who tried to escape were executed by snipers. The bodies of these people would be hung in public areas as a warning to others. ISIS fighters welded the front doors of other homes trapping the occupants. Booby traps were set preventing the occupants from leaving via the exits.
Mobile phones were banned by ISIS preventing trapped civilians from being rescued.
Oh, what savagery!
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