New York, Jan. 18 -- The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq issued a statement on Thursday rejecting allegations made earlier this week by a non-profit organization there, alleging that personnel had carried out explosive hazard clearance inside two historic churches in Mosul in a barbaric and arbitrary manner.
The allegations, published earlier this week on the website of the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (HHRO), the Iraqi non-governmental organization in question, accused UNMAS of crimes no less grievous and insolent than the crimes of Daesh, and claimed that the clearance was conducted without church authorization, in a barbaric and arbitrary manner with utter disregard for the holy and religious sanctity of the tw...