Barwana massacre

Name: Barwana massacre
Start: 2015

2015 CE.

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The Barwana massacre was committed by unknown Shia militia members as a revenge for ISIS atrocities. It allegedly involved the sectarian execution-style killing of over 70 unarmed boys and men in the small Sunni village of Barwana, which is just west of Miqdadiyah, Iraq. Some security officials disputed the accounts, with some saying that ISIS militants were responsible and others that they were fabricated by ISIS supporters.

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