Islamic states Fighters have killed scores of people and are using tens of thousands more as human shields as governments and kurdish forces battle to reclaim mosul, United Nations human rights investigators reported on friday.
After killing a group of 25 former servicemen on Tuesday, the militant shot to death atleast 190 former members of the iraqi security forces at a military base in mosul on Wednesday, Ravina shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the united nations human right office, told reporters in Geneva.
Islamic states members had rounded up the former service men and their families a day earlier, after transporting them to al-ghazlani base, they seperated the men from the women and children and shot them dead, Ms.Shamdasani said.
The militants also killed 42 civillians on friday at a military base outside the city by shooting them in the head, she said, after they refused to join the Islamic state also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Many of those who refused to comply were shot on the spot.
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