Massacre of the tribes: 228 found murdered in just two days as ISIS militants exact bloody revenge on Sunni leaders who sided with Iraqi government against them
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- 150 members of Albu Nimr tribe found in mass grave near Ramadi today
- Meanwhile 48 bodies belonging to same tribe found in nearby town of Hit
- Yesterday ISIS militants massacred 30 men in broad daylight in central Hit
- Victims were local tribal leaders who have organised anti-ISIS resistance
The
bodies of 228 tribal leaders have been found in Iraq after militants
from the Islamic State exacted bloody revenge on Sunni leaders who have
been organising resistance movements against them.
150
members of the Sunni Albu Nimr tribe were found in a mass grave near
Ramadi in Anbar province this morning, while the corpses of another 48
members were discovered near Hit.
Yesterday
ISIS militants massacred 30 men in broad daylight in the centre of Hit,
which is also in Anbar, parading them through the streets and using
loudspeakers to declare them apostates.
It
is understood the murdered men were local tribal leaders who had allied
with the Iraqi government and were helping to organise anti-ISIS
operations throughout the province.
Sickening: ISIS militants lined up 30 Sunni men in a town west of Baghdad and shot them dead yesterday
Massacre: Young men use mobile phones to take pictures of the dead bodies inside Hit yesterday afternoon
The
bodies of 150 members of the Albu Nimr tribe were discovered after ISIS
militants took the men from their villages to the city of Ramadi.
Police
and security officials say they discovered the bodies in a mass grave
outside the city this morning, with the indication being the militants
shot them dead yesterday evening.
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In a
separate case, witnesses said they found 48 corpses belonging to members
of the same Albu Nimr tribe near the town of Hit, roughly 50 miles
north west of Ramadi.
Faleh
al-Issawi, a councilman in the Anbar provincial government, said the
bodies were discovered in a mass grave outside the town.
Describing
the event an eyewitness said: 'Early this morning we found those
corpses and we have been told by some Islamic State militants that
"those people are from Sahwa, who fought your brothers the Islamic
State, and this is the punishment of anybody fighting Islamic State".'
The man spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for his own safety.
Grisly: The Islamic State extremists are understoog to have lined the men up and shot them dead with rifles
Tribal
sheikhs from Albu Nimr say both sets of victims were among more than
300 men aged between 18 and 55 who were seized by Islamic State this
week.
Yesterday morning Islamic State militants shot dead 30 members of the tribe in the centre of Hit.
The
slayings took place on a main street in al-Bakir district of the town,
which has been the scene of intense fighting by jihadis and local
resistance groups in recent weeks.
The
militants first paraded the men through town, shouting through
loudspeakers that the captured men were apostates who fought against
them, residents said.
The extremists then lined up the men and shot them dead with assault rifles, residents said.
The Anbar faction of ISIS is led by
Abu Waheeb (centre) whose notoriety stems from the filmed murder of
a group of Syrian lorry drivers in Iraq last summer. His band of
militants are known as the 'Al Anbar Lions'
Militants from the Islamic State (pictured) have been intensified attacks in Anbar province recently
A photograph showed a line of the men's bodies by a small pool of blood as onlookers walked by.
Anbar
provincial council chairman, Sabah Karhout, said the Sunnis killed were
tribal fighters allied with the government and members of the security
forces.
The
men were captured when ISIS terrorists overran the town, which sits on
the Euphrates river and is located about 85 miles west of the Iraqi
capital.
Karhout
called the slayings 'a crime against humanity' and demanded more
international support for the Sunni tribes fighting the militants in
Anbar province.
HARROWING VIDEO SHOWS SCENE OF BLOODY DEVASTATION AFTER SYRIAN ARMY DROPS 'BARREL BOMBS' ON REFUGEE CAMP, KILLING UP TO 75
A
harrowing video has emerged showing the charred and dismembered bodies
of up to 75 people killed when a Syrian regime helicopter dropped two
barrel bombs on a refugee camp yesterday.
The
graphic footage - filmed at a displaced persons camp in the northern
province of Idlib - shows the bloodied corpses of women and children,
while passers-by scramble to save the wounded.
'It's
a massacre of refugees,' a voice off camera can be heard saying, while
tents that act as makeshift homes burn all around him and dazed children
wander the camp looking for relatives.
Barrel
bombs, which are banned by international law, are crudely made
containers filled with nails, metal shrapnel and explosive material that
are dropped from low altitude.
Horror: The graphic footage - filmed
at a displaced persons camp in the northern province of Idlib - shows
the bloodied corpses of women and children, while passers-by scramble to
save the wounded
The video begins with the cameraman racing up to the bombed camp on a motorcycle and finding a scene of total devastation.
'Let
the whole world see this, they are displaced people. Look at them, they
are civilians, displaced civilians. They fled the bombardment,' he
said.
The
man runs into the camp and screams at others to pick up the bodies,
trying to convince them that the people on the ground with limbs missing
might still survive if taken to hospital.
'This
one's good! This one's good!' he shouts, telling two men to carry a
limp body with one leg hanging from strips of flesh to a nearby pickup
truck.
'Pick him up from the stomach not the leg,' he screams.
Victims: Witnesses and paramedics scramble to save the lives of those injured in the twin blasts
Harrowing: 'It's a massacre of
refugees,' a voice off camera can be heard saying, while tents that act
as makeshift homes burn all around him and dazed children wander the
camp looking for relatives
A
man in another video of the Abedin camp, which houses people who had
escaped fighting in neighbouring Hama province, said as many as 75
people had died.
Syrian
state media did not mention the bombing. The British-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence in the civil war,
said it heard reports that 10 civilians had been killed.
Details of the attack could not be independently confirmed.
Human rights groups say the Assad regime has previously dropped barrel bombs on densely populated neighbourhoods.
These acts are in defiance of a U.N. Security Council resolution banning their use.
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