city of Mosul, officials in the region said on Wednesday.
Most of those killed
were former members of the Iraqi police and army who had lived in areas under
Islamic State control south of Mosul, Abdul Rahman al-Waggaa, a member of the
Nineveh provincial council, told Reuters.
The militants forced
them to leave their homes with their families, and took them to the town of
Hammam Al-Alil, 15 km (9 miles) south of Mosul, where the executions took
place, he said in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, east of Mosul.
The men were shot
dead, he said, quoting the testimony of remaining residents of the villages and
people displaced from the area.
The executions were
meant "to terrorize the others, those who are in Mosul in
particular", and also to get rid of the prisoners, he said.
"Daesh (Islamic
State) was taking families from each village it left," said Waggaa.
Separately, Hoshiyar
Zebari, an influential Kurdish politician, told Reuters in Erbil that at least
65 people had been executed by Islamic State south of Mosul three days ago.
REVOLT
The militants
started rounding up hostages in the villages of Al-Hudd and Al-Lazzaga, after a
revolt broke out against them a week ago to aid the army's advance, said
Zebari, a former Iraqi finance minister and foreign minister.
More than 20 were
put to death as punishment in two villages located just north of the town of
Qayyara, he said.
Families of the
executed hostages are being held in Hammam al-Alil or in Mosul, he said.
U.N. human rights
spokesman Rupert Colville on Tuesday said Islamic State fighters had reportedly
killed scores of people around Mosul in the last week.
Colville said
security forces discovered the bodies of 70 civilians in houses in Tuloul Naser
village south of Mosul last Thursday.
Islamic State also
reportedly killed 50 former police officers outside Mosul on Sunday, he said.
Iraqi army and
Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Oct. 17 launched an offensive on Mosul, Islamic
State's last major city stronghold in Iraq.
Reuters
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