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Iraq
Dozens of bodies found in Islamic State mass grave in Iraq
2018-12-22
[IsraelTimes] In latest ghoulish discovery, authorities discover bodies of civilians, believed kidnapped and executed by jihadist group, at the bottom of a well in Kirkuk.

Iraqi authorities said they uncovered a new mass grave containing the remains of dozens of people in an area of northern Kirkuk province once held by the 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....
group.

Security forces have discovered dozens of mass graves since they drove out IS in 2017 after three years of occupation of swathes of northern and western Iraq.

The United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
said in November that more than 200 mass graves containing up to 12,000 victims had been found in Iraq that could hold vital evidence of war crimes by the jihadists.

The latest macabre discovery was made on Thursday in the Hawija district of Kirkuk province, Adel Ismail, a lieutenant-colonel in the Iraqi federal police force, told AFP.

He said the grave contained the remains of "innocent Iraqi civilians" who "were kidnapped and then killed" by the jihadists.

It was found in what appears to be a deep well in the al-Abbassi area of Hawija.

"This is a mass grave used by ISIS," said Wani Firas, a resident of the area, using an Arabic-language acronym for IS.

"They used to come here, execute and throw (the victims) inside, and we used to watch and observe from nearby," he said.

The United Nations in Iraq (UNAMI) and its human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
office said last month they had documented a total of 202 mass graves in parts of western and northern Iraq held by IS between 2014 and 2017.

Of them, just 28 had been excavated and 1,258 bodies exhumed by Iraqi authorities, the report said.

Even more sites could be uncovered in the months to come, it warned, urging Iraqi authorities to properly preserve and excavate them to provide closure for victims’ families.
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