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Iraq
62 mass graves with thousands of Yazidi victims’ relics found in Sinjar: Official
2017-12-27
Sinjar (IraqiNews.com) The total number of mass graves of Yazidi victims have reached 62 in Sinajr, west of Nineveh, an official was quoted saying on Tuesday.

Speaking to AlSumaria News, Fahd Hamed Omar, acting mayor of Sinjar, said, "a human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
team arrived at Sinjar and counted the amount of discovered Yazidi mass graves, which reached 62 so far."

Some graves, according to Omar, includes thousands of relics of civilians, while others composed of couple of victims’ relics. "Among the executed are whole families that were killed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
"IS executed them collectively on the eighth day after controling Sinjar. We were watching from the top of Sinjar mountain how they executed and buried them using machines in mass graves," Omar added.

He described the execution of Yazidis as "the biggest genocide in the modern times."

Earlier on the day, a mass grave composed of relics of Yazidi victims was found in Sinjar, Alqurtas News website reported.

Relics of 24 Yazidis were found in Kesra al-Mei’rab village. They were shot in the heads and chests, Iraqi officials told al-Hurra TV channel.

Iraqi troops, according to the officials, were extradited to forensic medicine department to identify their relatives.
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