In the first days of fall of Mosul, during the horrifying Massacre, ISIS militants packed hundreds of unarmed air force student into trucks and told them they would be returned to their families – but instead they were taken to a nearby riverbank, lined up and mercilessly shot at close range.

On that day (12 June 2014) the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS and Daesh) killed at least 1700 Shia Iraqi Air Force cadets in an attack on Camp Speicher in Tikrit. At the time of the attack there were between 4,000 and 11,000 unarmed cadets in the camp.

Many could escaped and just dozen of the student who captured by ISIS and transferred to Killing Site near River survived the onslaught and later told horror stories of how their colleagues were rounded up for slaughter.

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