The international community needs to take action against Iran-sponsored Shia militias that are perpetrating sectarian cleansing campaigns against Sunni Arab civilians Opinion | DrTalAbdulrazaq
In Iraq, it is simply enough to be a Sunni and then accused of links to Daesh for you to be stuck in permanent legal limbo, facing torture and all kinds of depredations. Late last month, Human Rights Watch reported that both federal and regional Kurdish authorities haveNot even children are spared, as they are accused of Daesh membership and then
This is no idle or grandiose assessment, either, as Iraq has a very recent history of inter-communal violence, death squads, forced sectarian homogenisation of cities and districts, and the reciprocal destruction of religious sites.in 2014, it was justified by the Iraqi government as a temporary military measure needed to counter the Daesh threat.
The international community has no interest in crimes against Iraq’s Sunnis, and the Iraqi government certainly could not care any less. Even if they did want to hold anyone to account, the state itself isThis can only mean one thing. Whenever Daesh next builds up enough strength to launch another attempt at conquest, or if a new iteration is formed out of its, the international community and the Iraqi authorities will only have themselves to blame.