The NPR program, Fresh Air, broadcast an important interview yesterday with Letta Tayler, an investigator for Human Rights Watch who recently returned from Iraq.

The headline for the segment on the NPR website reads: “Human Rights Watch Researcher Reports ISIS Abuses In Iraq.”

We’ve all seen and heard much about the human rights abuses by the ISIS army that has taken control of much of Iraq.

But what I wasn’t prepared for were Tayler’s descriptions of massacres of unarmed prisoners carried out by the government of Nouri al-Maliki.

Unfortunately, no transcript is currently available, so there’s no choice except to listen to the program.

It’s hard to listen to, but it is really important for us to hear.

An report by Human Rights Watch earlier this month described the situation (“Iraq: Campaign of Mass Murders of Sunni Prisoners“).

Is this the future we spent all those years, all those billions, and all those lives to create?