I sent the report of HRW on Iraqi Shi`ite militias to a secular Arab expert on Iraq. He wrote me this: ""Human Rights Watch did not document reports of killings of civilians in this operation but has documented allegations of militia killings and other abuses in numerous other areas of Iraq in several reports in 2013 and 2014."
You don't get it, Iraq is like Lebanon, there is a varied media belonging to all parties, and no one can shut anyone up from revealing atrocities and mass killings when they happen. If there were real sectarian massacres, they would have been paraded all over the Arab media (just yesterday, ISIS showed the bodies of dozens of locals that it killed for spying for the enemy; in its worst Badr would never do anything like that, and imagine if it did). Some destruction and displacement is the least to expect, many make a convincing argument that the Bouajeel, for example, should simply be displaced and never be allowed to return. But this is not a sectarian matter."
You don't get it, Iraq is like Lebanon, there is a varied media belonging to all parties, and no one can shut anyone up from revealing atrocities and mass killings when they happen. If there were real sectarian massacres, they would have been paraded all over the Arab media (just yesterday, ISIS showed the bodies of dozens of locals that it killed for spying for the enemy; in its worst Badr would never do anything like that, and imagine if it did). Some destruction and displacement is the least to expect, many make a convincing argument that the Bouajeel, for example, should simply be displaced and never be allowed to return. But this is not a sectarian matter."
