US legally bound to stop assistance to Iraqi troops committing atrocities in Mosul – Human Rights Watch

‘US law requires that the DoD stops all support for the Iraqi Army’s 16th Division, a unit involved in numerous acts of extrajudicial killings and other atrocities in Mosul, Human Rights Watch said.
A report issued Thursday by Human Rights Watch outlines a number of alleged abuses by the US-trained 16th Division of the Iraqi army in Mosul, a city freshly taken from the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). In the latest case in mid-July, soldiers apparently executed four naked and bound prisoners in an alleyway just next to a building used as the division’s base in the area. Two international observers, who delivered the report to HRW, said they were told by soldiers not directly involved in the execution that the four men were IS fighters.
The rights group cites a number of other recent episodes in Mosul, in which members of the 16th division allegedly abused and summarily executed people. It says the Iraqi government is reluctant to investigate such cases.’
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