UNHRC OKs sending mission to Iraq

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) agrees to send an emergency mission to Iraq to investigate crimes committed by ISIL Takfiri militants.

On Monday, the UN rights body accepted a resolution to probe the crimes perpetrated by the Takfiri group in the Arab country in an emergency session. The resolution was proposed by Iraq and endorsed by over 100 countries.

“The reports we have received reveal acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale,” UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri said during the session.

“We are facing a terrorist monster,” Iraqi Human Rights Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told the council, criticizing heinous acts “equivalent to genocide and crimes against humanity”.

Iraq’s outgoing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pledged on Monday that the Arab country will become a graveyard for the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.

Maliki made the remarks as he visited the liberated town of Amerli in northern Iraq.

“Iraq will be a graveyard for (ISIL),” the premier said in televised remarks from the town.

On Sunday, Iraqi forces liberated the besieged town, where thousands of Shia Turkmen had been surrounded by Takfiri terrorists for two months.

The ISIL terrorists have been committing heinous crimes in the captured areas, including the mass execution of civilians and Iraqi security forces.

Soldiers of the Iraqi army have been engaged in heavy fighting with the militants on different fronts and have so far been able to push back militants in several areas.

Senior Iraqi officials have blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar and some Persian Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.

The terrorist group has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be supported by the Israeli regime.

IA/AS/MAM