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Iraq opens mass grave to identify IS victims
[IsraelTimes] In recent weeks, dozens of family members of the victims of the massacre at the Badush prison have given blood samples, which will be compared to the DNA of the remains.Iraqi authorities said on Sunday that the remains of 123 people killed by Islamic State  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadists had been removed from a mass grave in a bid to identify them. The Badush prison massacre was one of the worst crimes IS carried out after it seized control of a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014. In June that year, IS fighters attacked the northwestern prison, freeing Sunni Moslem inmates and forcing 583 mainly Shiite prisoners into a truck, before driving them to a ravine and shooting them. In recent weeks, dozens of family members of the victims have given blood samples, which will be compared to the DNA of the remains, which were found in the mass graves in 2017. "Thousands of families are waiting to know what happened to their relatives," Najm al-Jubburi, governor of the Nineveh province where the prison is located, told AFP. The mass grave, discovered after Iraqi forces took control of the area in March 2017, is one of more than 200 the murderous Moslem group left behind in its rampage of brutality, according to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... The remains of up to 12,000 people are believed to be buried in these graves, the UN says, which has accused IS of having committed genocide in Iraq. One of those waiting for closure in Iraq is Abbas Mohammed, whose son was tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! at Badush following his arrest by US forces in 2005. "After 17 years of not knowing whether my son is alive or dead, I need an answer," he told AFP. Iraq has been struggling to identify remains of people from several The task has been challenging, as remains have often been burned or exposed to the elements over the years. "Work conditions are difficult," Saleh Ahmed, a member of government commission tasked with identifying the "deaders," said at the site of the Badush mass grave. "The heat is overwhelming. Some remains are entangled, and there are snakes and scorpions everywhere," he said, as 30 workers carried out the grim task of removing bodies from the grave. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-14 |
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