State-backed Iraq Shiite militias commit ’war crimes’: Amnesty

                     

AFP – Oct. 14, 2014 - Shiite militias backed by the Iraqi army are committing war crimes against civilians in their fight back against the Islamic State jihadist group, rights watchdog Amnesty International said Tuesday.
It accused the Baghdad government of supporting and arming groups of Shiite fighters who have carried out a string of kidnappings and killings against Sunni civilians in response to IS’s lightning capture of swathes of Iraqi territory in June.