New Saddam Mass Grave Found In Iraq
Voices of Iraq:
Missan, Aug 17, (VOI) – A mass grave of 150 women and an unspecified number of children dating back to the late 1980s was recently found in the residential district of al-Hussein in central Amara.
The area, used as a cemetery, which covers an area of 50 donums (69400 square meters), also contains bodies of newly born babies - “martyrs” - from the May 1941 Revolution and strangers, according to Missan province’s Human Rights Office.
Hashim Jaafar al-Mousawi, who guards the cemetery, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) that it was only him and his mother who knew that the cemetery also contained bodies of Kurdish women and children who were buried together in the late 1980s.
“In 1987 security elements under the former regime brought Kurdish families from the Kurdistan region to Amara. It was reported that Saddam killed the men (in their hometowns) and brought the women and children (to Amara) to punish them for their continued opposition to his regime,” the guard said. “Afterwards an estimated 150 women, in addition to an unspecified number of children, were killed and buried in this mass grave,” he added.
Amara, the capital city of Missan province, is 380 km southeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Zeinab Hamidi, the guard’s mother, who was keen to offer tangible evidence for her claims, said “Saddam’s security men would come here at night with vehicles loaded with corpses, expel us from the cemetery and dig holes for the bodies. They would throw six to seven women in one hole with an uncountable number of children.”
“We knew the bodies were Kurdish women when animals dug up some of them. Bright Kurdish clothes and head coverings belonging to Kurdish old women were also unearthed,” the mother explained.
According to a report released by the Iraqi government’s High Committee on Mass Graves, 240 mass graves have been discovered in Iraq so far, mostly in Iraq’s central, southern and central Euphrates provinces. Half of the graves found in Samawa, the capital city of Iraq’s southern province of Muthanna, contained bodies of Kurdish citizens who were allegedly forced out of their hometowns in northern Iraq and exterminated, the report said.
When asked about the reason why he did not reveal the grave after the collapse of the former regime in 2003, al-Mousawi said that he did not want the grave to be used for “propaganda purposes,” adding, “But the time has come.”
Salman Abdul Hussein Malak, an official from Amara’s Kurdistan Democratic Party’s office, affirmed that the grave contained bodies of Kurdish women and children who were killed under the former Iraqi regime. “In our capacity as a Kurdish political party we submitted a report on this gave to Kurdish leaders and called for further investigation,” he indicated.
Ahmed Ashour, the director of the Human Rights Office in Missan, said the grave is the only one in the province that contains bodies of women and children. “We have taken possession of the cemetery… DNA tests will be conducted to reveal the identities of the victims and their next of kin will be informed,” he added.
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Hey, let’s ask the democRats if they know where all the mass graves of the Bush administration are. Those whackadoodles are so unhinged that they probably believe that’s what happened to all the victims of the 9/11 ‘inside job’.
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August 18th, 2007 at 3:42 pmAnd here is Exhibit A why Saddam and his two piece of shit sons needed to die…and why the US needed to intervene.
Of course the fuckstick-crats will never accept that reasoning. There were no WMD’s? Oh really? What about the 500 barrels that we found two years ago?
In any case, the bastard Saddam is now being used as a stirring stick for the fires of hell. Good riddance.
August 18th, 2007 at 11:17 pmGod-how awful for the victims-I am glad they got some sense of justice, even an imperfect one.
August 19th, 2007 at 3:52 amInteresting…
September 8th, 2007 at 1:28 pmCool…
November 4th, 2007 at 7:17 pm