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Remains of 31 Kurds found in
Kurdistan-Iraq mass grave
24.6.2006
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SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan-Iraq, June 23, 2006 (AFP) , -- A mass
grave has been discovered in Kurdistan, north of the
Iraqi capital where 31 Kurds were buried during the
former regime of Saddam Hussein, a Kurdish official
said Friday.
The remains were found in Milk Shai, 120 kilometers
(70 miles) north of Baghdad, an area that does not
fall within the northern Kurdistan region.
"They are Kurds killed by the men of Saddam Hussein
in 1991," at the time of a major Shiite uprising in
the south after the Gulf war, said the official from
the human rights department of the Kurdish province
of Sulaimaniyah.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said he had
asked for help from US officials to extract the
remains and said the site was currently under police
protection.
Many mass graves where Kurds were buried have been
discovered in the north of Iraq and authorities hope
to use the evidence in court cases against Saddam.
Saddam and six of his former regime officials are to
face charges of genocide for killing nearly 100,000
Kurds at the time of the Anfal operation in the
early 1980s.
AFP
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