List of massacres in Iraq

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the area of modern Iraq. It is not necessarily exhaustive, and sources frequently disagree on the number of deaths.

• In 1258, the Siege of Baghdad (1258): estimates range from 200,000–2,000,000 civilian deaths^[1][2]
• August 1933, the Simele massacre in Northern Iraq: the Iraqi army massacred 3000Assyrian Christians
• June 1–2, 1941, Farhud, Baghdad; 175-780 deaths, considered "the beginning of the end of the Jewish community of Iraq"
• July 8, 1982, Dujail Massacre, Dujail; 148 deaths
• March 16, 1988, Halabja poison gas attack, Halabja: 5000+ deaths; Iraqi government used chemical weapons on Kurdish town; condemned as an act of genocide
• August 1, 2004, 2004 Iraq churches attacks, |Baghdad and Mosul; 12 died, 71 injured
• October 24, 2004 Massacre of New Iraqi Army recruits by Sunni insurgents, 49 killed.^[3]
• November 19, 2005 Haditha killings, Haditha 24 Iraqi civilians were killed by United States Marines. |-
• March 12, 2006 Mahmudiyah killings on by U.S. Army soldiers, 4 killed.
• March 15, 2006 Balad massacre on by U.S. Forces, four women and five children, one aged five months.^[4]
• Between May 7 and 8, 2006, 51 bodies were found in Baghdad, all handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the head and abdomen.^[5]
• July 9, 2006, Hay al Jihad massacre on by Shia militia, 40 killed.
• March 27, 2007 2007 Tal Afar bombings and massacre, Tal Afar 152 Shiites were bombed; then Shiite-affiliated policemen after a bombing, 70 killed .
• April 23, 2007, 2007 Mosul massacre, Mosul; 23 died; the murders were considered to be a reprisal for the honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl
• On April 17, 2007, 51 bodies of Iraqi civilians and military personnel, who were killed in the previous two years, were found in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
• April 23, 2007, 2007 Mosul massacre on by Sunni insurgents, 23 killed.
• June 29, 2007, Al Ahamir Massacre, Al Ahamir, 10-14 Iraqi civilians were killed by Al Qaeda
• On June 30, 2007, 35 to 40 bodies were recovered from a recently dug mass grave in the town of Ferris, south of Fallujah, most likely victims of sectarian violence.
• July 16, 2007, massacre of Shiite villagers in a village in Diyala province on by Sunni insurgents, 29 killed.^[6]
• August 14, 2007 2007 Qahtaniya bombings on by Sunni insurgents, 796 killed.
• September 16, 2007, Nisour Square massacre, Baghdad: Blackwater Baghdad shootings by Private military company, 17 killed. Private military company, Blackwater Security Consulting, shot at Iraqi civilians killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad while escorting a US embassy convoy.
• Following the conclusion of the 2007 Diyala province military campaign dozens of mass graves were found. It is unclear who was responsible although Al-Qaeda is suspected.
• On April 4, 2010 Insurgents dressed as US and Iraqi soldiers killed 25 people including 5 women in a village south of Baghdad. They were linked to the Awakening movement. They were hand cuffed and shot in the head or chest. 7 were found alive in handcuffs. Major General Qassim Atta spokesman for the Iraqi security forces' Baghdad operations said Al-Qaeda in Iraq was behind this.^[7][8]
• October 31, 2010, 2010 Baghdad church attack, Baghdad; 58 died; Islamic State of Iraq attacked a Catholic church
• April 8, 2011, Camp Ashraf raid, Camp Ashraf; 34 unarmed members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran were killed by Iraqi security forces. 300+ injured.
• September 1, 2013, 2013 Camp Ashraf massacre, Camp Ashraf; 52 died; Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps helped plan and direct the assault on the camp and then two of Iran's Iraqi-based proxies, Kata'ib Hezbollah and Asaib Ahl al-Haq carried out the attack.
• 12–15 June 2014 Camp Speicher massacre |Tikrit; the Islamic State with the help the Sunni local tribes killed at least 1,700 unarmed Iraqi Air Force cadets. They were separated by sect: Sunnis were allowed to repent for their military service, while Shiites were lined up for firing squads. The soldiers were separated into small groups, executed and buried in mass graves.
• 10 June 2014 - ongoing, Mass Executions in ISIS Occupied Mosul where over 6539 people have been killed.

References

1. Andre Wink, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Vol.2, (Brill, 2002), 13.  – via Questia (subscription required)
2. The different aspects of Islamic culture: Science and technology in Islam, Vol.4, Ed. A. Y. Al-Hassan, (Dergham sarl, 2001), 655.
3. "Iraqi Insurgents Massacre 49 Iraq Recruits". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
4. "WikiLeaks releases unredacted U.S. cables". Alaska Dispatch News. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
5. "30 Iraqis Killed in Karbala, Baghdad". Retrieved 6 April 2015.
6. Bassem Mroue (6 April 2015). "New Village Massacre Reported in Iraq". Newsvine. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
7. Archived April 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
8. "Dozens dead in Baghdad shooting - Middle East". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 2014-08-07.