Horrific war crime: Disturbing pics suggest ISIS killed over 160 people in just FOUR days!

Baghdad: According to analysis of satellite images and shocking photographs released by ISIS militants, Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirmed that the insurgents have killed at least 160 prisoners in just four days – June 11 to June 14. HRW has compiled a series of graphics documenting the massacres from various satellite images with pictures posted online by ISIS. The pictures on the HRW website showed rows of men lined up and shot by gunmen. The group said the toll could be much higher but there is no way of locating or getting to the area and carrying out a full investigation. According to a report in Daily Mail, “HRW said that using satellite imagery from 2013 and publicly available photos taken earlier, it was able to pinpoint the execution site in a field near a former palace of the late dictator Saddam Hussein, next to the Tigris River.” The group said ISIS posted about 60 photographs on its Twitter feed on June 14. HRW emergencies director Peter Bouckaert said, “The photos and satellite images from Tikrit provide strong evidence of a horrible war crime that needs further investigation. ISIS apparently executed at the very least 160 people in Tikrit.” (In the above image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executing dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. A major offensive spearheaded by ISIL but also involving supporters of executed dictator Saddam Hussein has overrun all of one province and chunks of three others since it was launched on June 9/AFP)

Human Rights Watch has produced a series of graphics like this which they say document the execution of at least 160 Iraqi prisoners in two locations in Tikrit over four days after cross-referencing landmarks and individuals in images posted by ISIS with satellite photographs

The U.S.-based group said militants from ISIS killed between 160 and 190 men in two locations in Tikrit between June 11 and June 14.

HRW said satellite imagery of the site from June 16 (right) did not reveal bodies, but showed indications of vehicles and earth movement when compared with an image from 2013

Photos from one of the trenches at the first execution site show ISIS fighters forcing prisoners to lie in a shallow ditch with their hands tied behind their backs

The massacre appeared to be aimed at instilling fear in Iraq's armed forces - which melted away as ISIS seized much of the north in a matter of days

The Islamic extremist group posted graphic photos on a militant website that appeared to show fighters loading dozens of captured soldiers onto flatbed trucks. Human Rights Watch have even estimated the time of executions by studying the length of the shadows

These images show prisoners being shot by ISIS gunmen after being forced to lie face-down in a ditch at the second of the two locations in Tikrit

By cross-referencing landmarks in these images with satellite data, the group was able to pinpoint the location of the first execution site

Again, in this image, the human rights group were able to accurately locate the position of two trucks based on landmarks in the background

Analysis of these pictures suggests the militants may have taken the truck used to transport the prisoners from a government depot