As Iraq’s Insurgency Spreads Beyond Mosul, UN Rights Chief ‘Alarmed’ by Reported Abuses

by Gary Kopycinski on June 13, 2014

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GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–13 June 2014 – As insurgents continue to overrun parts of northern Iraq, the United Nations human rights chief expressed “extreme alarm” today at reports of summary executions and extrajudicial killings, and the massive displacement of some half a million people, many of whom are now in urgent need of shelter.