Badusch prison
Coordinates: 36 ° 24 '0.6 " N , 42 ° 57' 44.6" O The prison Badusch ( Arabic سجن بادوش, DMG Siǧn Bādūš ) is a detention center in Badusch near the Iraqi city of Mosul . It is located northwest of Mosul on Syria Road about 15 km from Mosul city center. The entire area enclosed by the prison wall takes up about 50 hectares .
history
After a nephew of the ousted head of state Saddam Hussein managed to escape from this prison in 2006, the prison director and his deputy were arrested in December 2006.
At the beginning of 2007, 1200 of the nation's most dangerous prisoners were housed in Badusch. But in March 2007 insurgents attacked the prison on the orders of Abu Abdullah ar-Rashid al-Baghdadi and helped 140 people to escape. It was the largest prison breakout in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein four years earlier.
After the Islamic State militants took Mosul in June 2014, a massacre is said to have occurred in the prison. Witnesses told the UN that up to 670 prisoners were killed by IS militias on June 10, 2014 . The victims are said to be people of different ethnicities, all of them non- Sunnis . They were brought out of the city in trucks. The UN called the mass execution a "massacre".
Hundreds of abducted women are said to have been in the Badusch prison since June 2014, after being threatened to convert to Islam.
In March 2017, the Badusch prison was liberated by Iraqi armed forces in the course of the battle for Mosul . Among other things, a mass grave with 500 dead was discovered on the site.
Individual evidence
- ^ UN on the "Islamic State": Witnesses report prisoner massacres. In: Spiegel Online . August 25, 2014, accessed February 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Report by human rights activists: ISIS militias sell Yazidi women as "spoils of war". In: Spiegel Online . August 30, 2014, accessed February 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Welt.de: Mass grave with 500 bodies discovered near Mosul, accessed on March 11, 2017