Since the battle of Tikrit in March 2015, which is the first participation of the militias of popular crowed in the Military operations against al Aldaash and to this day, it continues to carry out its systematic and sectarian crimes , abuses and practices against the Iraqi Sunni provinces . Perhaps the last of those crimes were uncovered by local tribal sources in the province of Salahuddin, northern Iraq, on Friday, for the militias of “popular crowd” campaign of new displacement, touched on dozens of families ,Southern of the province , while local officials confirmed the seizure of the militias on large tracts of lands, and distributed to people with its dead. A member of local Council of Dhuluiya town , South Salahuddin, Mohammed Khalaf al-Jubouri, in a media statement, said that the militia “Badr, and the Kataib ahl-al-Haq , and Saraya al-Salam”, which operate within the “popular crowd” forces, last night and this morning, told about 90 families in the town to leave their homes within 72 hours, adding that “elements of the militia threatened to detain violators, on charges of terrorism.”Al- Jubouri added that “militias justified the displacement of residents because they are relatives of the elements in the organization Daash, expressing fear of a new waves of displacement in the region. In the same context, a member of the local council in Dhuluiya , Ali Hamad Faris, confirmed that militias of the “popular crowd” seized large swathes of the territory of the town, and distributed it to its dead who have died during the battles with the organization “Daash” in Salahuddin. And Ali Hamad Faris pointed out that the militias had distributed lands within the project called “compensation of the martyrs of the popular crowd.”
The practical practices of the militias of popular crowd proved and still to prove that it has been deviated completely from the real objective of its establishment as if that goal was just outwardly target which hides in the core the fact of its issue revealed by its real practices . these practices can be demonstrated in two obvious things . The first: that the militias to deepen the social vertical “sectarian divide ” in Iraq through the shameful practices against members of the Sunni component in the provinces of the Sunni nature . As such practices up to the level of crimes against human rights and among these crimes, “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 popular crowd in the rest of the Sunni provinces. The second of those deviations to Militias of popular crowd about its true purpose in fighting organization “Daash” embodied it and since its emergence on the Iraqi scene as a whole in general and the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in particular that it has ignited the state of instability of security in Baghdad and through their undisciplined behavior , which demonstrates the irresponsiblity and recklessness and disregard in the capital, as if these militias by its actions outside the law has become the official body governing Iraq.
Sources have criticized these deviations , for the Iraqi level , Haider Abadi, Iraq’s prime minister admitted for the violations of the crowd during his stay at the Munich conference, which was held in the month of February of this year, where he said “I think that there are groups spawned by the popular crowd which sets out of the framework of the state and its control and we will not allow this, we will not allow the existence of any groups outside the framework of the state and we will fight it and eliminate it. ” On the US side , serious confessions issued by the US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter when he said, “I saw all the military war crimes that took place on the ground, but what came to us from a private Videos of what is happening in Fallujah and what happened in Saqlawiyah caused for me a very big shock ! These videos of the elements of the intelligence of us from the inside, a continuous records and private .. sections that leaks and you watch on networking sites (and the content) of the crimes are real videos even if you have seen what were hidden , you would never believe .. crimes I watched that had not seen it in the wars of the earth and did not expect to get such crimes never .. the skulls of children were tearing alive, women are raped and brutally! Young girls are raped and then murdered .. organs of men were cut and then their bodies were torn in wagons alive .. I will not speak about other crimes because they are difficult and shocking beyond belief .. pictures that are taken to indicate that they greet them and give them water were actually true! But then it turns everything, what you are seeing in the social networking sites 0 percent of the truth. ”
Martin Dempsey, Chief of Staff of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff singled out the Iraqi scene by a statement made during his visit to Baghdad, which he said “when he flew by helicopter over Baghdad that it was possible to see a lot of flags and emblems of the known Shi’ite militias without seeing the Iraqi flag among them only rarely,” “the war effort against Daash doomed to failure if the Baghdad government did not succeed in its commitments towards y the Sunni to be a government for all Iraqis.” American retired Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of the tank corps who occupied Iraq in 2003, warned in an interview with The Washington Post that the real threat to Iraq comes from militias of popular crowd backed by Iran and not from the organization of Daash, and said that these militias are accused of war crimes and the killing of Sunni civilians and not only the Islamic state.
The United Nations has criticized the performance of the militias of the popular crowd, when Bruno Guido, head of the refugee agency mission of the United Nations in Iraq, said the militia’s behavior was “totally unacceptable. and” 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, it has been practiced torture by militias.” On the legal level, the “Human Rights Watch” reported in one of its reports, which enjoys high credibility the following: ” Sunni had suffered who managed to escape from the beatings, disappearances, and even from the field executions at the hands of Iranian-backed Shiite militias in recent weeks.”
Every criticism towards the militias of popular crowd by Iraqi and international circles does not affect the Shiite component, this community, although were surrounded by general recovery where the parties rule by its own name, the majority of them suffer from the poor services. Criticism directed towards militias Foundation that constitute tools to serve partisan purposes and put Iraq’s political future to the risk of fragmentation and ethnic and racial conflicts, and facilitate the path of regional influence, rather than that the country moves to the conditions that helps to build reconciliation and civil peace. What comes after Daash will be the toughest on the Iraqis.
In spite of all these criticisms , the suffering of the people of the Sunni provinces from “Daash and militias,” are still continuing, and here we wonder who can stop the crimes of these militias? When we talk about the plight of the current Sunni Arabs and their dark future , we look into this, as political and social case, unrelated to the religious and sectarian matters that are not of our concerns, but it is our right and our duty to remind our people to the coming dangers and warn of coming days may be extremely difficult, hoping that the warning and reminding will be good and useful .Here, too, we wonder: When will the Sunni of Iraq be freed from the anvil of Daash who sees in every Iraqi Sunni disagree with them as an apostate or infidel and the hammer of militias of the popular crowed filled psychologically and ideologically that the Sunnis are the enemy number one ?
Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic Studies