On 10 June 2014, the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
An Islamic state is a state that has a form of government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a translation of the Arabic term ...
(ISIS) killed at least 670
Shia
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mo ...
prisoners in an attack on
Badush prison. ISIL first separated out the
Sunni inmates before executing the remaining prisoners.
On 11 March 2017, the
Popular Mobilization Forces
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) ( ar, الحشد الشعبي ''al-Ḥashd ash-Shaʿbī''), also known as the People's Mobilization Committee (PMC) and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), is an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization ...
announced that they had discovered a mass grave containing the remains of 500 prisoners executed by ISIS in the prison. There were 39 Indian construction workers who were executed in the region.
On 13 June 2021, it was reported that Iraqi authorities had removed the remains of 123 people murdered by ISIL during the prison attack from a mass grave to identify them using DNA from relatives.
References
External links
* https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/incidents/m2817
2014 murders in Iraq
Massacres in 2014
June 2014 crimes in Asia
21st-century mass murder in Iraq
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2014
Massacres of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) perpetrated by ISIL
Religiously motivated violence in Iraq
Violence against Shia Muslims in Iraq
Prison massacres
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