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A senior UN envoy called on Iraqi government to probe into the attack at Camp Speicher military base in June and massacres of hundreds of Iraqis soldiers by extremists, a UN spokesman said Wednesday.
"The Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq Nickolay Mladenov has called on the Iraqi authorities to conduct a public and independent investigation into the attack at Camp Speicher military base, when it was seized by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated armed groups on 12 June 2014," Stephane Dujarric told a regular briefing.
Mladenov said that evidence suggests that a massacre has been committed at the camp and hundreds of Iraqis were killed by ISIL. The terrorist group claimed in June that it had executed some 1, 700 captured soldiers and other military personnel from the camp.
In Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, families and relatives of missing Iraqi soldiers from the camp broke into the parliament building Tuesday, accusing the parliament of ignoring their demand to interrogate military commanders who are "responsible for the disappearance of their sons."
Mladenov has urged the Iraqi authorities to do all they can to uncover the truth, to locate and identify the remains of those killed, and to undertake efforts to secure the release of anyone still held in captivity, according to Dujarric.
Camp Speicher, located north of Salahudin's provincial capital of Tikrit, was attacked in June when ISIL and other armed groups seized large areas of northern and north central Iraq. In days after the capture, pictures and videos posted online by ISIL showed horrendous scenes of a large number of young men being herded onto trucks, transported to a remote location, and then forced to lie on the ground in rows, as ISIL fighters systematically and brutally killed them.
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Monday calling on the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to dispatch a team of investigators to Iraq to inquire into crimes committed by ISIL and associated armed groups to ensure accountability.
