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Iraq mass graves may hold 300,000
November 9, 2003
BY BASSEM MROUE AND NIKO PRICE Advertisement
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein's government is believed to have buried as many
as 300,000 opponents in 263 mass graves that dot the Iraqi landscape, the top
human rights official in the U.S.-led civilian administration said Saturday.
Sandy Hodgkinson said the administration has been sending forensic teams to
investigate those grave sites reported to U.S. officials. So far, the existence
of about 40 graves has been confirmed.
''We have found mass graves with women and children with bullet holes in their
heads,'' she said.
President Bush has referred to Iraqi mass graves frequently in recent months,
saying they provide evidence that the war to drive Saddam from power was
justified.
But some human rights activists have criticized the U.S.-led administration in
Iraq for moving too slowly to protect grave sites and begin excavations, and
have expressed skepticism that it will ever fully identify who is buried in the
mass graves.
''There is just no way -- technologically, financially -- that they're going to
deal with mass graves on this magnitude,'' said Susannah Sirkin of Physicians
for Human Rights in Boston.
The U.S.-led administration held a workshop Saturday to train dozens of Iraqis
to find and protect the mass grave sites. Hodgkinson said the workers would be
crucial in protecting the sites from desperate relatives trying to dig for
evidence of their missing loved ones.
The largest mass grave discovered so far, a site near the southern town of
Mahaweel believed to hold at least 3,115 bodies, was damaged by relatives
searching for remains. But officials say most of the mass graves haven't been
disturbed.
Iraqi Human Rights Minister Abdul-Basit Turki said that in addition to
families'
need to find the bodies of missing relatives, excavating mass graves is
important in building criminal cases against members of the former regime.
International tribunals handle prosecutions for atrocities in the former
Yugoslavia, where tens of thousands of missing are believed buried in mass
graves, and Rwanda, in which many of the 500,000 victims of a 100-day killing
spree in 1994 were buried in communal pits.
But for Iraq, the United States has insisted that any trials be conducted by a
new Iraqi legal system that is still being developed.
Hodgkinson said the majority of people buried in the mass graves are believed
to
be Kurds killed by Saddam in the 1980s after rebelling against the government
and Shiites killed after an uprising following the 1991 Gulf War.
Hodgkinson said the investigation process would be similar to that used in
Bosnia after its 1992-95 war. But she cautioned that if Bosnia is any
indication, the process in Iraq will be long and complicated. It has taken
nine
years to unearth 8,000 of the 30,000 bodies believed buried in mass graves in
Hodgkinson said the investigation process would be similar to that used in
Bosnia after its 1992-95 war. But she cautioned that if Bosnia is any
indication, the process in Iraq will be long and complicated. It has taken
nine
years to unearth 8,000 of the 30,000 bodies believed buried in mass graves in
Bosnia, she said.
AP
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