Daesh kidnaps 295 ex-Iraqi security forces near Mosul: UN
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Ravina Shamdasani, the spokeswoman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Daesh has abducted 295 former members of Iraqi Security Forces near the city of Mosul, the United Nations says as the Takfiri terrorist group is suffering considerable setbacks on the ground due to advances by the Iraqi troops.
Ravina Shamdasani, the spokeswoman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), released the figure at a UN briefing in the Swiss city of Geneva on Tuesday.
About 100 of the ex-officers were kidnapped from the village of Mawaly in western Mosul on November 3, and 195 more were taken from villages in the district of Tal Afar on November1-4, Shamdasani said.
She further said Daesh had forced 1,500 families to retreat with them from the southern Mosul town of Hammam al-Alil that was recently liberated by the Iraqi forces.
"People forcibly moved or abducted, it appears, are either intended to be used as human shields or - depending on their perceived affiliations - killed," the official noted, adding, "The fate of these civilians is unknown for the moment.”
Mosul fell to Daesh in 2014, the year the terror outfit began its campaign of death and destruction in northern and western Iraq.
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