The emergence of militias of the popular crowd is attributed to the fatwa of “Jihad Ulkipaia” issued by the supreme Shiite religious authority of Iraq in June 13 2014. The aim of its establishment is to fight the state organization in Iraq and the Levant “Daash” which could with ease to control over the province of Mosul and later the other Sunni provinces before the limitation of its presence in the province of Mosul at the moment.
The practical practices of the militias of popular crowd have proved and still to prove as significantly that are deviated from the true aim of its creation, as if that goal was just outwardly target where it hides in its essence the real issue revealed by its real practices . these practices can be demonstrated by two obvious things . The first: that the militias deepened the vertical “sectarian” ,social divide in Iraq through the shameful practices against individuals of the Sunni component in the Sunni provinces. As such practices have reached to the level of crimes against human rights and these crimes are “the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, these crimes according to the Article V of the Statute of the International Criminal Court applies to the actions of the militias of the popular crowd in the rest of the Sunni provinces.
The behavior of the militias of the popular crowd was not matching with the speech used by the Iraqi government noting that Most Iraqi Shiite groups within the popular crowd were involved in acts of violence against Sunni civilians. And the non-recurrence of such acts , it has been agreed on what was termed “Tikrit rules” -the informal agreement that stipulate that the Iranian-backed Shiite militias should not enter to Sunni cities that are to be retaken from the state organization in Iraq and the Levant “Daash” for fear of igniting a new sectarian tensions there. But the popular crowd forces did not abide by these rules and entered the city of Fallujah, as reported by Iraqi security sources and other press establishments that militias of the popular crowd have carried out the looting and burning of houses in Fallujah after the liberation of neighborhoods in the city from the grip of the terrorist organization Daash. Also Fallujah residents who managed to escape suffered from the beatings, disappearances, and even from the field executions at the hands of the popular crowd forces, Shiite militias, according to “credible” reports cited by the report of the organization “Human Rights Watch,” and Bruno Guido, head of the agency of the UN refugee mission in Iraq, said the militia’s behavior was “totally unacceptable.” Guido told AFP news agency that the allegations of ill-treatment by the Shiite militias, “proven by many sources … and from reports we have received assuring that it has been practiced torture by militias.”
It is interesting that revenge on the civilians did not occur after the end of fighting, as happened in Tikrit, but it was occurred in its start . However as it was noted that the basis for the participation of the popular crowd at the battle of Fallujah is an attempt to achieve political gains because of the symbolism of this battle, it seems that the motives of a number of factions, militias of popular crowd are pure revenge and vengeance , in a sectarian context; this is what can explain the attacks and flaunt of it by publishing intense images and clips depicting an insult, and torture, and killed numbers of civilians fleeing Fallujah. What applies to Fallujah and Tikrit of sectarian revenge by militias , it also applies to other Sunni cities that were stormed by it and including, but not limited the city of Diyala.
The second of those deviations of the militias of popular crowd from its real objective which is to fight the state organization in Iraq and the Levant “Daash” is embodied since its emergence on the Iraqi scene as a whole in general and the Iraqi capital , Baghdad , in particular , that it inflamed the state of security instability in Baghdad and through their undisciplined behavior and that indicates to the irresponsible and recklessness and disregard within the capital, as if these militias by its actions outside the law have become the official body governing Iraq, and in this context the rawabet center for research and strategic Studies received a security document issued by the Iraqi Interior Ministry on the current July 27 , that the unidentified armed people wearing “black” military uniform , riding in a black color vehicles type “Silverado / 2, and Michubia / 1, and Nissan Patrol / 1” were in non –compliance to the inspection inside the Al-Shaab control within the Rashidiya area, and they were not content with that act which is illegal and non-ethical, but they also attacked elements of control including the officer of the sonar vehicle “Alraescan” Lieutenant “Ali Tariq Razak , ” and in order to avoid being accused in the rawabet center for research and strategic Studies that the center is seeking to promote lies regarding Iraq , we put in the hands of honorable reader the details of this incident as stated in the security document which is as follows:
This attack on the control doing their national duty may not be the first of its kind, but it may be preceded by numerous attacks on the controls in different locations of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and that this attack leads us to wonder: Why is the attack on the vehicle of the sonar officer “Alrabiskan” and prevented him from carrying out his security duty, everyone knows that the vehicle of the sonar is involved in the detection of explosives inside the vehicle? This attack on the vehicle of the sonar officer makes us to link between it and the terrorist bombings that recently took place in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, for example, the terrorist bombings that took place in Sadr City in May of this year, and the bloody bombings of Karrada in the current July . so the failure of the militias to comply with the security control , it will put it among the suspects in the case of occurrence of any future terrorist bombing in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, taking in to the consideration the fact that these militias ruled Iraq with an iron fist. it can be said that this shameful abuse will increase the state of the security confusion of the Iraqi capital Baghdad and as if Iraq in general is not satisfied with the state of confusion, which nestled in the joints of the Iraqi state since April / May 2003.
The summary of saying : The influence of the Iranian regime in Iraq in the post-2003 and the emergence of militias allied to it, particularly after June 2014, and non-national practices, pay us one day to read “Asalam” in Arabic language to Iraq that means the end of Iraq , but when the militias of the popular crowd to be rewarded here on its crimes that may become in the near future, a major part of the official institutions of both security and military branches in Iraq , then it becomes necessary for us to read ” Alsalam”( the end of Iraq ) in all world languages on Iraq , Arabism .
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