{"id":14606,"date":"2018-08-19T15:11:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T15:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=14606"},"modified":"2018-08-19T15:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T15:11:30","slug":"iraq-sentences-14-to-death-over-daesh-camp-speicher-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/iraq-sentences-14-to-death-over-daesh-camp-speicher-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq sentences 14 to death over Daesh Camp Speicher massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"
An image taken from a video posted by Daesh militants shows the terrorists leading away captured Iraqi soldiers from Camp Speicher near Tikrit, northern Iraq, on June 12, 2014. (Photo by the Associated Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Iraqi Judiciary has\u00a0upheld death sentences against more than a dozen convicts involved in a June 2014 massacre by Daesh Takfiri\u00a0terrorists at an air force camp in the country\u2019s north-central province of Salahuddin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Head of the Committee\u00a0for the\u00a0Commemoration\u00a0of\u00a0the carnage, Moin al-Kazemi, said in a statement that Iraqi judicial officials passed the ruling on 14 convicts on Sunday, urging the officials to carry out the sentences as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

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 Daesh militants.<\/p>\n

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 a river.<\/p>\n

The massacre was filmed by Daesh and broadcast\u00a0on social media.<\/p>\n

An investigation committee later revealed that 57 members of Saddam Hussein\u2019s Ba\u2019ath Party aided Takfiri Daesh terrorists in the massacre.<\/p>\n

On August 21, 2016, Iraqi judiciary officials hanged\u00a036 men convicted of involvement in the carnage.<\/p>\n

Tikrit was recaptured from Daesh in March 2015.\u00a0During clean-up operations in the northern part of the city, Iraqi forces found the location of the 2014 carnage.<\/p>\n

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An image taken from a video posted by Daesh militants shows the terrorists executing captured Iraqi soldiers from Camp Speicher near Tikrit, northern Iraq, on June 12, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On June 30, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is also the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces, pledged to hunt down Daesh militants across Iraq after a series of attacks and abductions carried out by the terrorist group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will chase the remaining cells of terrorism in their hideouts and we will kill them, we will chase them everywhere, in the mountains and the desert,\u201d Abadi said.<\/p>\n

Abadi declared the end of military operations against Daesh in the Arab country on December 9, 2017.<\/p>\n

On July 10 that year, the Iraqi prime minister had formally declared victory over Daesh extremists in Mosul, which served as the terrorists\u2019 main urban stronghold in the conflict-ridden Arab country.<\/p>\n

In the run-up to Mosul’s liberation, Iraqi army soldiers and volunteer Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi fighters\u00a0had made sweeping gains against Daesh.<\/p>\n

Iraqi forces took control of eastern Mosul in January 2017 after 100 days of fighting, and launched the battle in the west on February 19 last year.<\/p>\n

Daesh began a terror campaign in Iraq in 2014, overrunning vast swathes in lightning attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An image taken from a video posted by Daesh militants shows the terrorists leading away captured Iraqi soldiers from Camp Speicher near Tikrit, northern Iraq, on June 12, 2014. (Photo by the Associated Press) The Iraqi Judiciary has\u00a0upheld death sentences against more than a dozen convicts involved in a June 2014 massacre by Daesh Takfiri\u00a0terrorists …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14608,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions\/14608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}