°®Âþµº

He called on the Secretary-General of the UN and international organisations to intervene to stop the what he described as "atrocities" and urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to assign the task of entering Fallujah to the military, and not militias and federal police.

Meanwhile, Abdul Karim Talib, an MP for the National Coalition, called on authorities to save Fallujah's civilians without separating youths from their families. 
 
"It is imperative for security and military authorities to distinguish between civilians and the enemy and to open safe corridors and evacuate civilians who a experiencing great suffering in the city of Fallujah".

	[Click to enlarge]

He stressed the need to unify the military efforts and not attack civilians who had been trapped in Fallujah with no way to escape.  

The Iraqi army said on Sunday it had secured the first safe exit route for civilians to leave Fallujah, and a Norwegian aid group said thousands of people had already used it to flee in the first day it was open.

In response to the allegations of human rights abuses against civilians carried out by militias and the Iraqi Army, Human Rights Watch said the Fallujah campaign was "a test for the government's ability to hold abusive forces accountable."

"The Iraqi government needs to control and hold accountable its own forces if it hopes to claim the moral upper hand in its fight against ISIS," said , deputy Middle East director, using another acronym for Islamic State.

"It's high time for Iraqi authorities to unravel the web of culpability underlying the government forces' repeated outrages against civilians."