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Kurds discover mass grave near Chamchamal
22.1.2006
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SULAIMANIYAH, Kurdistan-Iraq, Jan 21, 2006 (AFP)
- Kurdish authorities announced Saturday that a mass
grave dating from the time of Saddam Hussein had
been unearthed in the course of routine road repair.
"The drivers of bulldozers came across four human
remains near Chamchamal, 100 kilometers (60 miles)
south of the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, and we
decided to halt all further work," said Lieutenant
Colonel Mahdi Mohammed Ali, the local police chief.
"We are keeping an eye on the site while waiting for
the arrival of specialized teams from the human
rights department" of the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan, the party administering Suleimaniyah
province.
"The area was used by members of Saddam Hussein's
security services to screen those entering and
leaving Kurdistan after 1991," he said, referring to
the time after which the north became increasingly
outside the countrol of the central government.
"We think that Saddam's people, who manned the post
until the fall of the regime, were responsible for
many kidnappings and executions," he said.
Numerous mass graves of Kurds in the north and
Shiites in the south have been discovered since the
fall of Saddam's regime in 2003.
AFP
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