ERBIL –
Human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Iraqi authorities Thursday of the collective punishment of relatives of alleged IS fighters. Security forces would be 170 families to “rehabilitatiekampen”. That are according to the organization, in fact detention centres for adults and children who can’t be accused.
HRW staff visited a camp near the place Bartalla and talked with fourteen families. “New residents said that Iraqi security forces the families to the camp had brought. The police kept them there against their sentence because of allegations that family ties were with”, reported the human rights organization in a statement.
A spokesman for the Iraqi armed forces denied that families are forced to be transferred to camps. “We do not have any detailed information on what is going on. However, there is no situation or scenario in which Iraqi troops Iraqi civilians forced from their homes,” said brigadier general Yahya Rasool against journalists in Washington.