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900
bodies found in mass grave in Iraq
Thursday July 07, 2011 07:07:33 PM,
IANS
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Baghdad:
Iraqi authorities have dug up a mass grave with some 900 bodies,
believed to be Kurds killed under late Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein's regime in 1980s, a State-run daily said Thursday.
The bodies have been found near Iraq's central city of Diwaniyah,
Xinhua reported.
The corpses were found in Al Shanafiyah area, some 50 km southwest
of Diwaniyah, capital city of Al Qadsiyah province, Al Sabah
newspaper quoted a provincial council member as saying.
"Judicial teams from the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry arrived at
the site where the bodies were buried in trenches at the local
cemetery of Al Amharri in Al Shanafiyah," Dakhil Saihoud, a member
of the provincial council and head of the council's justice and
accountability commission told the newspaper.
"Preliminary investigations indicate that the remains are those of
Kurds who were killed during Saddam regime in 1980s," Saihoud
said, adding that the judicial teams have transferred some of the
bodies to forensic laboratories to help in identification.
Mass graves in Iraq became well-known since the US-led invasion of
the country, as dozens of mass graves made during Hussein's rule
were discovered. But dozens of other graves, discovered later,
were made during the chaos and the bloodshed that followed the
2003 Iraq war.
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