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Mass Grave with Up to 1,500 Bodies Found in Iraq

NEAR SAMAWA, Iraq (Reuters) - Investigators have uncovered a mass grave in southern Iraq containing as many as 1,500 bodies, most of them thought to be Kurds forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1980s.

The site, near the town of Samawa, about 180 miles south of Baghdad, consists of 18 shallow trenches dug by earth-moving vehicles into hard limestone rock.

Most of the victims were women and children who were apparently lined up in front of the pits and shot with AK-47 assault rifles, according to a U.S. investigator.

Around 110 bodies have been excavated from the site so far, nearly two thirds of them children and teenagers.

They are being forensically examined and evidence gathered will be used to build cases against Saddam Hussein and his top deputies for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

The site appears to have been carefully chosen and was well concealed, factors prosecutors believe will convince a court of the systematic nature of the crime.

Many of the victims were wearing clothing that is traditionally Kurdish, and even specific to certain villages. They were wrapped in multiple layers, suggesting they knew they were being moved somewhere, investigators said.

The site was first identified early last year by the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, but proper examination did not begin until early this month and finished on April 24.

A reporter was taken to visit the site with Iraq's minister of human rights, an Iraqi judge and international experts.

It is one of around 300 suspected mass graves that have been discovered around Iraq since Saddam was overthrown. Some contain as few as a dozen bodies, while others, including one near the southern city of Basra, contain several thousand.

In the area around Samawa, a largely Shi'ite Muslim town where Saddam cracked down against locals after an uprising in 1991, 27 suspected grave sites have been found.

An official from the Regime Crimes Liaison Office, a U.S. body working with Iraqi authorities to build evidence of crimes committed by the former government, said the Kurds were probably moved south during the Anfal campaigns of 1987-88.

During that period, Saddam and his top lieutenants oversaw the rounding up and forced removal of hundreds of thousands of Kurds from towns and villages across northern Iraq.

Saddam's armies crushed Kurdish opposition throughout the region and are accused of gassing residents of Halabja, near the Iranian border, killing more than 5,000 people.

The excavation of grave sites at this point is focused on gathering evidence for trials against former Iraqi leaders due to begin this year. Precise identification of victims, including DNA analysis, is not expected to happen for some time.

Bakhtiar Amin, Iraq's outgoing human rights minister, who is a Kurd, said Iraqi authorities needed to set up some sort of fund for the victims of Saddam's rule. He suggested that five percent of oil revenues be allocated for compensation.

"Compassion is not sufficient," he said. "Something tangible needs to be done for the victims of Saddam's regime."

[Boogski]

Originally posted by da_daisy_cutter
Mass Grave with Up to 1,500 Bodies Found in Iraq...


..."Compassion is not sufficient," he said. "Something tangible needs to be done for the victims of Saddam's regime."

Something tangible was done. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

But Saddam was secular, and he was supported by the US during the Iran/Iraq war!

So what? If we supported him in the past, we had every right to take his putrid carcass out in the future if he spazzed out. Let that be a lesson to terror monkeys abroad.

[Tamou]

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

21239 vs. 1500

Saddam has irrefutably more innocent blood on his hands!!

I am sure glad I will not have to face God with that kind of record!!

By the way, since you seem so well informed, could you please share with me the latest updates on the WMD file??

[-theTruth-]

Iraq is the most dangerious country to live in all thanks to the USA/UK attrocities.
more bodies have been killed by the USA than ever before
More rapes have been committed by the USA then ever
Even if you look at Vietnam the poor people lost 3 millions while the usa lost 70.000
these are only what we see, what we don't see is far worst.
If the USA were so lovely why is that whole world is against them?

[Theja]

Iraq is a dangerous country because of the terrorists.

Saddam Hussein killed thousands of his own people and Muslims didn't care. Now terrorists who were used to privilege under Saddam are unwilling to let Iraq function in peace and rule of law.

But blind Muslims will not see this.

Originally posted by -theTruth-
Iraq is the most dangerious country to live in all thanks to the USA/UK attrocities.
more bodies have been killed by the USA than ever before
More rapes have been committed by the USA then ever
Even if you look at Vietnam the poor people lost 3 millions while the usa lost 70.000
these are only what we see, what we don't see is far worst.
If the USA were so lovely why is that whole world is against them?

This is truly a post worth remembering.

The above reads with an odd iambic tempo and with a touch of Down's Syndrome embodied in its tortured verbiage.

Could it be that Osama bin Laden himself birthed some newbie VCI members? After all, it's fact, Osama has recently undergone a sex change. Today, thanks to a certain Egyptian doctor, he sports fake tits and a shaved working vagina. And if so, it's possible the umbilical cord hasn't even been cut on this particular fetal deformation and therefore Osama might be personally puppet typing for his/this breathing abortion. Or, alas, this member could be just another ragged, piss-soaked street bum in a Marakkesh internet cafe.

It's hard to tell, but I'll further predict the self-hating VCI bourgeois will embrace this mutated afterbirth as future moderator material. Yes, Osama's love child would be a darling VCI moderator.

Surreal indeed, yet it begs another question; if Osama is now a breeding $2-dollar brothel tramp, couldn't a drunken, opiated, AIDS-infected Kuffir have sired this particular embryotic moron?

Hmmmm. I just felt a chill go up my spine.

Voltaire, your thoughts?

[voltaires_priest]

I think you and Tihad make a lovely couple

But remember, as the old saying goes, "If you can't be good, be careful, and if you can't be careful, name it after me"


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