UN calls Iraq reports almost certain war crimes

By John Heilprin

Published June 16, 2014 5:14pm ET

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UN calls Iraq reports almost certain war crimes — Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani) | Nabil Al-Jurani

GENEVA (AP) — Evidence shows that the Islamic militants who massacred scores of captured Iraqi soldiers “almost certainly” committed war crimes, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday.

Pillay condemned what she called the reported “cold-blooded executions of hundreds of Iraqi hors de combat soldiers, as well as civilians including religious leaders and people associated with the government” in recent days by forces allied with the ISIL.

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