7 years have passed since the “Spyker” massacre’, Ayatollah Sistani’s Fatwa of Jihad, and the End of Terrorism.
The “Spyker” horrific tragedy in Iraq, with the killing of nearly 2,000 young Shiite students by ISIS, while it can be called the “crime of the century,” is an issue that the international community has easily overcome.
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, the culmination of the terrorist-takfiri group ISIL was in 2014, which captured Mosul in June of the same year following its crimes in Syria, at the same time as the invasion of northern Iraq.
Mosul, with a population of nearly 2 million and a sensitive strategic position, fell to ISIS takfiris on June 9, 2014. At the same time as ISIL took control of Mosul province in Iraq in 2014, its atrocities began.
During the three years of occupation of Mosul, ISIL committed brutal crimes, and undoubtedly one of the symbols of these crimes is the large and famous “Khusfa” pit, where thousands of innocent people were buried under the rubble.
On August 7, 2015, the ISIS terrorist group gathered a large number of men and women from Mosul and the suburbs at the edge of the Khosfa pit and shot them all in the head with a bullet or a terror knife. He threw it into this big hole.
This was not only the crime of ISIL in this deep pit, but after that, this terrorist group, in groups of several people, brought the victims to the edge of the pit and executed them, and then threw them in the pit.
Shocking stories about ISIL’s crime have been told in the pit, with some Mosul residents saying that ISIL, in groups of 10 and 20, brought Mosul men and women to the edge of the pit and asked them to throw themselves into the pit.
ISIL’s atrocities in Mosul were not limited to Shiites but continued with the intimidation of Christians in the city, the seizure of their property and places of worship, and the displacement of some 4,000 Christian families, an unprecedented amount since the Christians emigrated to Iraq.
After the Christians of Mosul, it was the turn of the Yazidis to be displaced to the Sinjar mountains and the women to take them to the markets of Nineveh for sale. It is noteworthy that Yazidi women tell horrific stories of their captivity at the hands of ISIS elements.
ISIL terrorists in the massacre of the people of Mosul used a number of brutal methods, including beheading, burning, gathering more than 10 people in a small cage and drowning them in water, fastening explosive belts on people, which were often carried out on children.
In addition to human crimes, Mosul’s cultural relics were not spared the brutality of ISIL terrorists, and ISIL takfiri elements attacked Mosul’s statues, religious buildings, and cemeteries, destroying a significant number of ancient sites. ISIS also bombed Yazidi shrines west of Mosul and the shrine of the Prophet Younis and the Prophet Seth in Mosul.
The Spyker tragedy was not the only ISIS crime in Mosul, and if it were not for the resistance forces, perhaps far more horrific crimes would have taken place in Iraq. The Americans and their Western allies, in the form of the Counter-Terrorism Coalition, supported and strengthened them from around the world while claiming to fight terrorism.
On June 13, 2014, Ayatollah Seyyed “Ali Sistani”, the supreme Shiite authority, issued a fatwa on the jihad of sufficiency, paving the way for the formation of a popular mobilization; The people’s mobilization group that, along with other resistance forces and with the unique command of Sardar Qassem Soleimani, saved Iraq from the clutches of terrorism.
