Iraqi security forces and regime-affiliated militias appear to have executed at least 255 prisoners since 9 June, a human rights group verbally expresses.
The killings appeared to be retaliation for attacks by the jihadist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), Human Rights Watch verbally expressed in a verbal expression.
The prisoners were all Sunni Muslims, while the majority of security forces and militia were Shia, they integrated.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Kurds have reportedly surmounted two oilfields in the north.
Most of the executions took place as Iraqi forces fled advancing Isis fighters, HRW verbalized in a verbalization.
The killings took place in six Iraqi villages: Mosul, Tal Afar, Baquba, Jumarkhe, Rawa and Hilla, HRW reported.
'Killing sprees'
"The mass extrajudicial killings may be evidence of war malefactions or malefactions against humanity, and appear to be revenge killings for atrocities by Isis," the verbalization verbalized.
Last month, Isis insurgents seized immensely colossal swathes of north-western Iraq. The group has gained a reputation for brutal rule in the areas that it controls.
Joe Stork, HRW's deputy Middle East director, verbally expressed: "While the world rightly denounces the atrocious acts of Isis, it should not turn a blind ocular perceiver to sectarian killing sprees by regime and pro-regime forces."
The HRW verbalization integrated that the executions, which it documented predicated primarily on interviews with eyewitnesses and officials, "may be evidence of war malefactions or malefactions against humanity".
