“Turkmen people in Tal Afar scared that both groups might conduct a massacre if they enter the city," Mosul's Turkmen MP İzzeddin Devlet says
The residents of the Iraqi province of Tal Afar are possessed by fear due to the threats of Hashd Shaabi Shiite militia and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists.
"Turkmen people in Tal Afar are scared that both of the groups might conduct a massacre if they enter the city," Mosul's Turkmen MP İzzeddin Devlet said.
"If Hashd Shaabi enter Tal Afar, then the new victims will be the civilians. We expressed our concern while talking with Iraqi Pm Haidar al-Abadi," he said.
"Abadi promised to only let Iraqi police and soldiers into the city," he added.
On October 17, the offensive initiated on Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, with the backing of a U.S.-led coalition.
Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, Shia militias have committed “serious human rights violations, including war crimes” against civilians fleeing Daesh-held territory.
The UN in July said it had a list of more than 640 Sunni Muslim men and boys reportedly abducted by Shiite militias in Fallujah, and about 50 others who were similarly executed or tortured to death.
The government and the Peshmerga say a limited number of violations had occurred and were investigated, but they deny abuses were widespread and systematic. No results of these investigations have ever been released, something the Human Rights Watch criticized last summer.
