After reports of mass executions in Iraq, Ban Ki-moon urged that the perpetrators of those crimes be brought to justice while also calling on Iraqi leaders to prevent sectarian reprisals.
Meanwhile, Ms. Navi Pillay, the Chief of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), condemned the apparently systematic series of cold-blooded executions, mostly conducted in the Tikrit area, which she said almost certainly amounts to war crimes.
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