HRW said that between 160 and 190 men were killed in at least two locations in and around Tikrit — the hometown of late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein — between June 11 and 14.
HRW says the number of victims may well be much higher, but the difficulty of locating bodies and accessing the area has prevented a full investigation.
On June 12, ISIS claimed to have executed 1,700 "Shi'a members of the army" in Tikrit. Two days later, it posted to a website photographs with groups of apparently executed men.
On June 22, Iraq's human rights minister announced that ISIS had executed 175 Iraqi Air Force recruits in Tikrit.
"The photos and satellite images from Tikrit provide strong evidence of a horrible war crime that needs further investigation," said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director of HRW.
"ISIS apparently executed at the very least 160 people in Tikrit".
On June 14, ISIS posted roughly 60 photographs, some of which show masked ISIS fighters loading captives in civilian clothes onto trucks and forcing them to lie in three shallow trenches with their hands bound behind their backs.
Some of the images show masked gunmen pointing and firing their weapons at these men.
By comparing ground features and landmarks in the photographs released by ISIS, Human Rights Watch established that two of the trenches were at the same location. By comparing these photographs with satellite imagery from 2013 and publicly available photographs from Tikrit taken earlier, Human Rights Watch located the site in a field about 100 meters north of the Water Palace in Tikrit - a former palace of Saddam Hussein next to the Tigris River.
The location of the third trench has not been identified.
Human Rights Watch also reviewed satellite imagery of the area recorded on the morning of June 16. The imagery does not reveal evidence of bodies at the site with the two trenches, but does show indications of recent vehicle activity and surface movement of earth that is consistent with the two shallow trenches visible in the ISIS photos. Without visiting the site it is impossible to know if bodies are buried there or were moved.
Based on a count of the bodies visible in the available photographs, Human Rights Watch estimates that ISIS killed between 90 and 110 men in the first trench and between 35 and 40 men in the second.
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