GENEVA (Reuters) - Forces allied with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have almost certainly committed war crimes by executing hundreds of non-combatant men in Iraq, the U.N. human rights chief said on Monday.
Corroborated reports showed that soldiers, military conscripts, police and others who had surrendered or been captured had been summarily executed in the past five days, Navi Pillay said in a statement.
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