BAGHDAD, Sept 9 (Reuters) - More than 14,000 employees in Iraq's Interior Ministry have been sacked for failing to respect human rights, the government said on Sunday, rejecting a report by a U.S. panel that accused the police of sectarianism.
"The Jones report is incomplete and does not depict the real picture in Iraq," government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said, referring to the assessment of the independent commission headed by General James Jones, the former top U.S. commander in Europe.
The panel recommended that the Iraqi National Police force, widely seen by Iraqis as Shi'ite dominated, should be scrapped and reorganised because of sectarianism within its units that made it "operationally ineffective".
It also said corruption and sectarianism were rife in the Interior Ministry, which oversees the police.
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