His specialists UN claim to have documented the use of chemical weapons by the Islamic State jihadist group during its self-proclaimed caliphate, says a report due to be discussed by the Security Council later today.
The members of Unitad, the group of researchers responsible for contributing to the Islamic state to answer for his crimes, state that they received “witness, digital and documentary evidence» which mainly concern the use chemical weapons in Iraq tthe era of the caliphate (2014-2019).
The experts conclude that IS “manufactured and produced rockets and chemical mortars, chemical ammunition for rocket launchers, chemical rocket warheads and improvised explosive devices”.
The investigation, as reported by the Athens News Agency, focused mainly “on the financing, supply and logistics of IS and its relations with elements of the administration, to better understand what the facilities for the manufacture, production and use of chemical weapons were allegedly in Iraq, to obtain additional information about the agents that were manufactured and the agents that were used.”
Where did the experts focus?
The experts focused in particular on an attack on the Iraqi city of Taza Hormatou on March 8, 2016. They say they secured “lots of evidence” mainly its “payments and correspondence details”. jihadist organization.
The team “examined evidence of compensation to families for the ‘torture’ of their members who were killed while handling chemical weapons, as well as training records distributed to high-ranking agents in the use of chemicals, such as weapons, mainly chemical dispersal devices.”
Among the products used were “aluminum phosphide, chlorine, Clostridium botulinum, cyanide, nicotine, ricin and thallium sulfate».
The report highlights “the health complications that the residents of Taza Hormatou currently suffer from” (chronic diseases, cancers and reproductive disorders, specifically).
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The report also refers to other major crimes, including mass sexual violence, the persecution of the Christian community of Iraq and other communities, as well as the destruction of cultural and religious heritage.
Furthermore, referring to IS funding, Unitad “significantly increased her evidence base against them who, in the commercial networks of monetary services, provided logistical support to (IS) and benefited from its campaigns of violence.”
According to Unitad, “functional links had been established between the Mosul and Baghdad networks and the larger regional networks of the Middle East and the Gulf region.”
Evidence “proves a close relationship” between IS leaders “and some money service companies, which became complicit in schemes to extort money from the local population, in whichthey ensured the management and transfer of looted wealth”.
The organization also began to consider “taking control and exploitation” of Iraqi oil.
The jihadists established in June 2014 a “caliphate” in a vast area that extends in Iraq and Syria. An international coalition, led by the United States, fought the group until the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) captured IS’s last stronghold, the eastern Syrian city of Baghuz, in March 2019. marking the end of the “caliphate”.
Source: News Beast
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