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The National (29 July 2019)

Mina Aldroubi

The head of a UN team investigating ISIS crimes in Iraq has called for the extremists to face trials like those held at Nuremberg to try Nazis after the Second World War.

Karim Khan travelled around Iraq with a team of nearly 80 people to collect evidence that will be used in court to deliver justice for relatives of those killed by the terrorist group and to those who survived its atrocities.

The UN investigative body, known as Unitad, is analysing about 12,000 bodies from more than 200 mass graves, about 600,000 videos of crimes committed by ISIS and 15,000 pages from the group's bureaucracy.

“It’s a mountain to climb,” Mr Khan told Agence France-Presse at Unitad headquarters in Baghdad.

During the past year, Mr Khan’s team heard harrowing accounts of the killing of entire families and of women and girls being taken as slaves.

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