Mars 02 2015 - Iraqi Sunnis in Diyala tell of fleeing Shiite militia in terror #IraqatWar
"Eyewitness tell MEE about massacres following the removal of IS by the Iranian-backed Badr Brigade as thousands of Sunnis took flight"
"Kareem Abbas lost six of his brothers in a massacre in Muqdadiyya that he says was carried out by the Badr Brigade (MEE/Abed al-Qaisi)."
"Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented several cases of kidnap and summary executions by the Badr Brigade in Diyala province.
The Badr Brigade:
“Iraqi civilians [in Sunni areas] are being hammered by ISIS and then by pro-government militias in areas they seize from ISIS,” Joe Stork, HRW’s deputy Middle East and Africa director, said in a statement."
"The Badr Brigade, an Iranian-funded Shiite militia with a force between 10,000 and 15,000, advanced on his village, and forced the Islamic State out of his hometown in a move the Iraqi central government called liberation."
Rädsla gentemot shitiska milisen:
"Ghassan Ajabouie nodded his head in agreement. Everyone in the camp has witnessed death and destruction at the hands of the Shiite militia, he says, everyone is terrified of the Badr Brigade."
“I am terrified, I will tell you with no hesitance,” Ajabouie says. “Everyone here is scared. Sharaban, my town, is free [of Islamic State] but no one has returned. Why? Because they are scared of this militia.”
Vittnesmål:
"“I would rather stay here in this camp and eat dirt than return,” he says. “I will eat dirt, and not just me, all of the people here, would rather do this than return. I live an hour away, but even if I had a palace there I would prefer this life and this tent here, than risk my life going home.”
Ajabouie says his brother was captured by IS militants seven months ago. He hasn’t been heard of since. The Badr Brigade, and IS, are the same, he says.
“If the Shiite militia see me they will cut my head off, if Daesh see me they will kill my brother,” he continues using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.
Abbas, who’s phone is now silent, but still grasped tightly in his right hand, stands beside the much taller Ajabouie, refusing to be budged out of position by the crowd.
ISIS och Badr brigaden är desamma:
“They’re both the same [IS and the Badr],” Abbas says, reiterating Ajabouie. “They carry out the same massacres, but people don’t seem to know this,” he says, raising his clasped hand, phone cocooned by dirtied and calloused fingers.
Om en Arab talar om att någon annan är värre än Israel då tar man det på allvar, speciellt av en irakie vars stat till och med absolut inte säljer olja till ens och varför ens jämföra med Israel, bara det säger allt.
“The Badr came into my village as well,” Wissam Ismayai shouts out, “
even the Israelis did not do to the Palestinians what the Badr did to us.”
Ismayai, with red-checkered scarf neatly packed around the top of his head, talked of Sinsin, his small village in Diyala – which he said is now occupied by Badr Brigade forces – as though returning in the future is not an option."
Har varken hemmet kvar eller tillhörighet:
“We have no guns, we are defenceless,” Ismayai told MEE. “I now own nothing, they
[Badr] destroyed my house, they took everything, but I just ask for one thing. The guarantee that my family will be safe - with that then I will go home, even though we have more here in these tents than we do in Sinsin.”
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraqi-sunnis-flee-terror-shiite-militia-1623496057