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12/06/2014 ISIS kills at least 1566 Shia Iraqi Air Force cadets
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BBC World News Speicher camp massacre
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed at least 1,566 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. ISIL fighters singled out Shia and non-Muslim cadets from Sunni ones and murdered them.
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