Iraq's prime minister blamed "criminals" on Saturday for alleged mass executions, following reports that dozens of civilians were killed by Shi'ite militias in Diyala province. "It's **t permitted for people to take the law into their own hands and punish others whenever they want to settle scores," Haider al-Abadi told a gathering of Sunni and Shi'ite religious and political leaders in Baghdad. Abadi, a moderate Shi'ite Islamist who has sought reconciliation between Sunnis and Shi'ites, had called on Wednesday for an investigation into accusations that Shi'ite militias systematically executed at least 72 people in the village of Barwanah. Accusations of such mass atrocities by Shi'ite militias threaten to undermine Abadi's efforts to win Sunni Muslim support to battle Islamic State, which grabbed large parts of **rthern and western Iraq last year.
02-01-2015, 06:22 PM
Iraq's PM pledges hard line against alleged militia abuses
Iraq's prime minister blamed "criminals" on Saturday for alleged mass executions, following reports that dozens of civilians were killed by Shi'ite militias in Diyala province. "It's **t permitted for people to take the law into their own hands and punish others whenever they want to settle scores," Haider al-Abadi told a gathering of Sunni and Shi'ite religious and political leaders in Baghdad. Abadi, a moderate Shi'ite Islamist who has sought reconciliation between Sunnis and Shi'ites, had called on Wednesday for an investigation into accusations that Shi'ite militias systematically executed at least 72 people in the village of Barwanah. Accusations of such mass atrocities by Shi'ite militias threaten to undermine Abadi's efforts to win Sunni Muslim support to battle Islamic State, which grabbed large parts of **rthern and western Iraq last year.
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