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Nigeria, Iraq
Ali Hussein Kadhim, an Iraqi soldier and a Shia, was captured by Sunni militants and hundreds of other soldiers in June and taken to a palace in Tikrit.
Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have separated the men by sect.
Sunnis are allowed to repent for their service to the government.
Shiites were marked dead and lined up in droves. Mr. Kadhim was No. 4 in his line.
When the firing squad shot the first man, the blood sprayed on the gentleman. Kadhim’s face.
He remembers seeing a camera in the hands of another militant.
"I saw my daughter in my mind and said 'Father, father, '" he said '. ".
He felt a bullet passing through his head and fell into a newly dug trench.
"I just pretended to be shot," he said . ".
After a while, sir.
One of the killers walked in the body and saw a man who was shot still breathing, says kawaii.
"Let him suffer," said another activist . ".
"He is a pagan Shia. Let him suffer. Let him bleed.
"At this point," Mr.
"I have a great will to live," said kawaii.
He said he waited for about four hours until it was dark and there was only silence.
About 200 yards away is the edge of the tigriss River.
He went to the river and the Reed gave him some cover.
There he met an injured man named Abbas, a driver at the Speicher Camp, who was shot by militants and pushed into the river. Mr.
Qadim and Abbas stayed there for three days and Abbas was seriously injured and barely moved. Mr.
Kadim eats insects and plants, but Abbas is too painful to eat anything.
"It's three hell days . "Kadhim said. As Mr.
Qadim plans to run away and Abbas implores him to come back to him and at least tell the story if he can't.
"Let everyone know what's going on here," Abbas told him . ".
He is now eating a cruel fat man at his home in southern Iraq.
The 23-year-old cadshem told his story one recent afternoon when he was resting in his uncle's orchard.
He was one of the few witnesses to the massacre of Iraqi soldiers stationed in the Speicher Camp, a former US military base in Tikrit in June, perhaps the most detailed.
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Cadshem spoke frankly and evenly about his experience and how he took nearly three cars from the river bank
Subway Road Week
Through the rebel wasteland, relying on sympathetic Sunnis to send him to a safe style tour.
In an earlier interview with a video reporter
There are still traces of handcuffs on the wrist of the card holder.
The content of his story was confirmed by a Sunni tribal chief who protected him during the trip, as was confirmed by Abbas's father.
He was interviewed in the local news media.
The scale of the massacre-
ISIS claims to have killed 1,700 Shiite soldiers, a figure that some Iraqi officials and President Obama consider.
The card is believed to be accurate.
This will make it the deadliest sectarian atrocity in Iraq's modern history, and more reminiscent of the mass killings in Iraq.
The Hussain government is the most important government facing the country during the sectarian civil war in 2006 and 2007.
It is believed that the militants also held hundreds of other soldiers at the Tikrit base hostage. Kadhim.
Adviser to outgoing Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al
Maliki said the government believes the hostages are held in Anbar province.
The Holocaust story is also about the tragic state of the Iraqi army, a force created and trained by the United States at the cost of billions of dollars, just like the cruelty of ISIS.
The victory of the militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria was based on a few months of maneuver along the diGriz and the al-fahladi River.
After militants attacked Mosul, Iraq's second largest city.
On June 10, they continued to attack Tikrit south.
In Tikrit, chaos and fear loom over the Speicher camp.
Kadhim, an intern, joined the Army 10 days before the fall of Mosul. The American-
Trained officers fled like they did in Mosul. Kadhim said.
"We are alone," he said . "
"So we decided to run away because there were no officers.
He and his comrades took off their uniforms and put on plain clothes.
Many sportswear and sandals-
And, in a large group
About 3,000 soldiers began to walk out of the front door, Mr. cadshem said.
It was a terrible decision and a cruel fate: the Speicher camp has not yet fallen into ISIS's hands until today. Had Mr.
Kadim stayed in place with his friends and they were almost certainly safe.
They thought they would walk to Baghdad, 120 miles south.
But he said that on the road near the University of Tikrit, the men ran in armored vehicles to about 50 ISIS militants.
"They told us, 'Don't worry, we'll take you to Baghdad. '"Kadhim said.
"They tried to make us feel safe.
"They lied to us.
The men were loaded into trucks and taken to the Palace of Tikrit.
Over the next three days, the militants carried out waves of killings in the palaces of Tikrit and elsewhere.
Human Rights Watch analyzed satellite images and checked photos released by ISIS, which said it had confirmed that at least 560 to 770 men were killed during this time.
The group acknowledged that the total could be higher, and ISIS itself set the number of people killed there at 1,700.
A culture of revenge in its blatant sectarian movement --or ethnic-
The massacre like Tikrit, ISIS has been tearing the wounds of Iraq and creating a new wave of factionalism, which has made us officials scrambling to call for better political inclusion and
But many here say these efforts seem irrelevant. Mr.
Kadhim and a number of other witnesses said that the Sunni Arabs of Tikrit, including some of Mr. Tikrit's people.
Hussein's tribe assisted the militants in mass killings, which families of the victims charged in local news media.
Parliament has said it will appoint a committee to investigate, but few believe justice will come.
On Tuesday, angry family members of dozens of missing soldiers stormed parliament, destroyed furniture and asked to speak to members of parliament, most of whom soon left the building.
The conquest of ISIS has once again awakened the majority of Shiites in Iraq, who are facing the threat of Sunnis to their survival --
There is nothing more prominent than industrial images.
A mass massacre of Shiites in Mr.
Hussein's hometown, with the participation of tribal members of the dead dictator.
In recent days, images and stories that have emerged from the massacre have begun to be widely broadcast on Iraqi state television, which has also long included programs detailing Mr. Obama's abuse. Hussein.
Many here want to know how long Shiites will restrain themselves and not engage in widespread retaliation against Sunnis, putting the country in a neighborhood situation --killing-
Neighbors clashed a few years ago.
In other countries facing a brutal history, such as South Africa and Bosnia, reconciliation means a painful process of apology and forgiveness that Iraq has never seriously pursued. Amer al-Khuzaie, Mr.
Maliki's reconciliation adviser visited South Africa last year to see if he could understand how the country's experience applies to Iraq.
When he visited Robben Island prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, he asked the tour guide how many prisoners he had during his execution
Imprisonment of Mandela
"He told me 125 . "
Khuzaie recalled.
"This is an incomparable situation between US and South Africa," he said . "Hussein.
"We will have thousands of people one day.
He added: "The culture of Iraqis does not pursue forgiveness.
We are from the desert,
Our culture is for revenge.
"In Virginia, in the fertile farmland area where several soldiers killed in Tikrit came from, collective memory is still hurt by the trauma of the Shiite revolt against Mr. Tikrit
S. officials encouraged Hussein to rule in 1991.
But America was on his side.
Hussein's security forces have massacred thousands of people.
This explains why Shiites in southern Iraq never trusted Americans when they invaded in 2003, even though the invasion subverted the political order of Sunni rule and brought Shiites to power.
This also explains why many Shiites are skeptical about the recent US military intervention in Iraq.
They said that what prompted the United States to act was not the massacre of Shiites like Tikrit, but because the Kurds in the north, as well as the Yazidi, an ancient religious minority in Iraq, were threatened.
Ali said: "They may hope that the situation will happen again in 1991, when they let the Iraqi people die under the injustice of the Saddam regime . "
Rubaie, a representative of Shi'ite religious institutions in the holy city of Najaf.
Around 11, unexpected KindnessBack on the river bank. m. , Mr.
Kadhim said goodbye to Abbas and entered the water.
The weather was cold and the water was strong, but after drifting down the river he managed to get to the other side.
In the dark, hearing the faint gunfire in the distance, he walked about half
A mile north, he said, until he found an empty reed hut and fell asleep.
The next morning he approached a group of houses in the distance and a Sunni family brought him in and gave him his first dinner in a few days: eggs and yogurt.
The family was worried about what would happen to ISIS if they found out they sheltered a Shiite, so drove him to a friend's house in another village where he was safely shut down for another three days.
The next stop of his journey is the town of Al Alam, in the Sunni tribal sheikh Khamis al-
Jubouri, who has been operating underground railways.
Like the system of Shiite soldiers fleeing from ISIS.
"We also help 40 Iraqi soldiers from Anbar, Diarra, Mosul and Baghdad to go home safely with the fake ID cards we have made for them," Sheikh jubri said . ".
Efforts to stop the rise of Islamic State. Mr.
Kadhim spent nearly two weeks at Sheikh and then they thought it was safe enough to travel to Erbil, the Kurdish autonomous region, during which they passed several ISIS checkpoints, sir. Kadhim said.
In Erbil, he met his uncle flying from Najaf.
After a long, roundabout drive, he finally returned here the next night.
When he talked about meeting his family again, he said, "it's so happy . "
"They are crying. I am laughing.
He had a thick beard and lost his weight.
He said, "My daughter ran away without recognizing me . "Mr.
Kadhim told his story in the local news media, and since then, his cell phone has been ringing the phone of the families of the missing soldiers.
A military intelligence officer visited him, heard his testimony and gave him $430, slightly less than half his monthly salary when he was a soldier --
He said he would never go back to work.
"At the moment, I don't have a job," he said . "
"I just wanted to take care of my orchard.