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	Mass Graves of Iraq: Uncovering Atrocities
		The discovery of mass graves in Iraq graphically testifies to the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the challenges of building a more pluralistic and law-based state.
		Mass graves in Iraq are characterized as unmarked sites containing at least six bodies.
		To successfully implement the mass graves strategy and, more generally, arrive at an accounting of the victims of the regime, Iraqi involvement is necessary.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/27000.htm (1429 words)

	Mass grave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mass graves are usually created after a large number of people die or are killed, and there is a desire to bury the corpses quickly.
		In disasters mass graves are used for infection and disease control, while the motivation for mass graves in war and genocide often is to hide war crimes.
		A mass grave of the Polish officers murdered in the Katyń massacre of 1940
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mass_grave (832 words)

	indymedia beirut \| Mass Graves from War Era Unearthed in Lebanon \| 13.12.2005 13:23
		This grave contained seventeen Lebanese Army soldiers and four civilians (including one cleric) who were killed during a battle against the Syrian Army in 1991 when the Syrians toppled General Michel Aoun.
		MP Tueini was also pushing for the idea of distinction between these newly-discovered graves that are used to cover atrocities committed by the Syrian Army after the end of the civil war in 1991, and other still-unknown mass graves that hide massacres of the 1975-1990 civil war, citing the Lebanese General Amnesty Law.
		One of these grave sites, according to Al-Diyar newspaper is in the village of Aintoura, where the right-wing Lebanese Phalanges militia is believed to have executed entire families associated with the SSNP party in 1984.
	beirut.indymedia.org /ar/2005/12/3568.shtml (882 words)

	Crimes Of War Project > Expert Analysis
		The Cerska grave is one of several exhumed in Bosnia that help explain the fate of approximately seven thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica, who disappeared after Bosnian Serb forces overran the UN safe area in July 1995.
		Mass graves are often mined or strewn with unexploded ordinance.
		Mass graves can be easily tampered with and the evidence they contain lost forever.
	www.crimesofwar.org /thebook/mass-graves.html (1022 words)

	Commitment on mass grave investigations needed from presidential candidates
		These families believe that the remains of their relatives may lie in a mass grave and hope that sooner rather than later those remains might be exhumed and identified, allowing them to lay their relatives to rest with dignity.
		The way mass grave sites have been dealt with epitomizes the ongoing failure of the Algerian authorities to concretely address the legacy of a decade of violence, in which over 100,000 people have been killed and thousands more have "disappeared".
		The latest discovery of a mass grave in the province of Relizane was announced at a press conference in Algiers on 27 December 2003 by human rights defender Mohamed Smaïn.
	www.algeria-watch.de /de/artikel/wahlen_2004/ai_090204.htm (929 words)

	Newsvine - Srebrenica Remains Found in Mass Grave (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The remains were heavily damaged as is typical of "secondary" mass graves in which victims' bodies are moved by the perpetrators from the original burial site in an attempt to hide the crime.
		The remains were heavily damaged, a typical feature of "secondary" mass graves to which victims' bodies are moved from an original burial site in an attempt to hide a crime, experts said.
		Forensic teams have been uncovering mass graves throughout Bosnia in recent years, collecting the remains and extracting DNA to be matched with family members.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/08/17/329564-srebrenica-remains-found-in-mass-grave (458 words)

	USATODAY.com - 300,000 Iraqis may be in mass graves (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Mass graves "tell the story of missing loved ones such as where, when and how they were killed," Hodgkinson said.
		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.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-11-08-iraq-mass-graves_x.htm (823 words)

	Saddam's Mass Graves
		The message-writer alludes to these things when he says, "The mass graves are being exhumed, not added to; the prison rape rooms are shut down." He didn’t bring up the gassing of the Kurds.
		However, whenever George Bush utters the words "mass graves," we’re all supposed to react in horror that someone would be so sadistic as to have authorized mass graves.
		A mass grave near Al Hillah was unearthed in the summer of 2003, producing the bodies of 900 of the Shiites who were massacred as a consequence of George H.W. Bush’s false promises.
	www.fsteiger.com /Saddams_mass_graves.html (951 words)

	Afghan Human Rights Panel Struggles to Deal with Mass Grave
		But he said that mass graves had become "an unfortunate phenomenon" on all sides in Afghanistan's wars.
		"Mass graves is an unfortunate phenomenon," Dostum's spokesman, Faiz Zaki, said by satellite telephone from northern Afghanistan.
		Mass killings have characterized the fighting in northern Afghanistan during two decades of war.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0820-04.htm (713 words)

	CNN.com - Mass grave holds Srebrenica victims - August 2, 2001
		The grave, 15 x 4 metres (50 by 13 feet) and two metres deep (6-1/2 feet), was found in Liplje, a village near the eastern town of Zvornik on the border with Yugoslavia some 40 kms (24 miles) northwest of Srebrenica.
		Last month a mass grave containing bodies of victims of the notorious Foca prison camp was discovered in a dense forest.
		Several of the 80 prisoners from the Foca prison camp whose bodies are believed to be in the grave have been found.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/07/08/bosnia.grave/index.html (627 words)

	Plague Victims Found: Mass Burial in Athens
		A unique mass grave and nearly 1,000 tombs from the fifth and fourth century B.C. were recovered during excavations prior to construction of a subway station just outside Athens' ancient Kerameikos cemetery.
		Both the mass grave and the tombs were destroyed after rescue excavations.
		Located near the surface, the mass grave was excavated during 1994-95 by Efi Baziotopoulou-Valavani of the Third Ephoreia (Directorate) of Antiquities.
	www.archaeology.org /online/news/kerameikos.html (484 words)

	Srebrenica Remains Found in Mass Grave
		The remains were heavily damaged as is typical of "secondary" mass graves in which victims' bodies are moved by the perpetrators from the original burial site in an attempt to hide the crime.
		The remains were heavily damaged, a typical feature of "secondary" mass graves to which victims' bodies are moved from an original burial site in an attempt to hide a crime, experts said.
		Forensic teams have been uncovering mass graves throughout Bosnia in recent years, collecting the remains and extracting DNA to be matched with family members.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700818.html (508 words)

	Possible Victims of Nazi "Euthanasia" Program: Mass Grave of Young Children Found in Germany - International - SPIEGEL ...
		A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 children has been found in a cemetery in western Germany.
		Authorities in western Germany have found a mass grave containing 35 bodies, many of them of young children, and are checking whether they may have been victims of Hitler's program of forced "euthanasia" that killed tens of thousands of people with physical and mental disabilities.
		The search for a mass grave containing up to 200 bodies began last week in response to years of rumors about the site and testimony from surviving eyewitnesses who reported seeing frequent transports of bodies to the cemetery at the end of World War II.
	www.spiegel.de /international/0,1518,440544,00.html (666 words)

	Mass Graves of Iraq: Uncovering Atrocities
		The discovery of mass graves in Iraq graphically testifies to the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the challenges of building a more pluralistic and law-based state.
		The initial “rush to the graves” by grieving Iraqi families quickly slowed, and reports indicate that only 11 of the hundreds of known sites were disturbed.
		To successfully implement the mass graves strategy and, more generally, arrive at an accounting of the victims of the regime, Iraqi involvement is necessary.
	www.cpa-iraq.org /human_rights/Mass_Graves.htm (1351 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Saddam's Iraq: Reign of Terror
		Unmarked mass graves are located throughout Iraq and contain the remains of countless victims of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime.
		Mass graves in Iraq contain the remains all groups from Iraqi society, including Kurds, Shi’a, Sunnis, Christians and foreign prisoners of war and other civilians who were executed in violation of international law.
		A mass grave can appear anywhere in the country, and can be identified by mounds of dirt piled above the ground, deep pits which appear to have been filled in, or citizens digging up the area.
	www.defendamerica.mil /specials/june2003/ReignOfTerror/MassGraves.html (708 words)

	Hunt is on for mass grave of Revolutionary War soldiers - Boston.com
		The soldiers, who died of smallpox after being dropped off on the city's shores by British forces, are believed to be buried in a mass grave in a corner of the Old Milford Cemetery, said City Historian Richard Platt.
		The soldiers are memorialized in a monument in the cemetery, but the mass grave has never been discovered.
		Bellantoni and Platt said identifying the bodies and their graves is expected to be difficult, if not impossible, because unmarked graves are common in older cemeteries.
	www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/10/21/hunt_is_on_for_mass_grave_of_revolutionary_war_soldiers (405 words)

	Mass grave found in Iraq -DAWN - Top Stories; 30 December, 2004
		SULEIMANIYAH, Dec 29: Labourers digging the foundations for a new hospital in Kurdish northern Iraq uncovered a mass grave on Wednesday containing an estimated 60 bodies, local officials said.
		A total of 259 mass graves have been found since Saddam was toppled, containing the bodies of 300,000 people believed to have been killed under his regime, although some estimates say the total number slain could reach one million.
		Another grave containing about 500 bodies, including those of women and children, was found near Suleimaniyah earlier this month.
	www.dawn.com /2004/12/30/top12.htm (333 words)

	Mass grave with 600 human skeletons found in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A mass grave with 600 human skeletons has been found in remote area of Pash Kanda in Helmand province, an Afghan source revealed here on Tuesday.
		The source told The Frontier Post here on Tuesday that a mass grave was discovered by a resident of Wardag province, who accidentally came across the heap of human skeletons while searching for his missing relatives.
		The first mass grave was discovered few years back in Dasht Laila, where bodies of thousands of student militia were found.
	www.rawa.org /grave.htm (259 words)

	Mass grave found in Irbil - NDTV.com - News on Mass grave found in Irbil
		A mass grave was uncovered close to an old military department in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Sunday, Iraqi officials today said.
		Since the end of the US-led war in Iraq, the Kurds have found dozens of mass graves in the area under their control in Sulaimaniya, Irbil, Duhok and Kirkuk provinces.
		Saddam Hussein's regime is believed to be responsible for the disappearances of over 2 lakh Kurds in the Anfal campaigns in 1988, the deportation of Feyli Kurds in 1980 and the disappearance of over 7000 Barzanis in 1983 during the attack in Irbil.
	www.ndtv.com /template/template.asp?template=Newiraq&slug=Mass+grave+found+in+Irbil&id=72767&callid=1 (536 words)

	Mass grave found in Kurdish region (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fatima Ali, one of those who rushed to the mass grave, said Saddam's henchmen had taken her husband away in 1990 after accusing him of collaborating with the peshmerga, or Kurdish fighters.
		The country is littered with mass graves containing possibly tens of thousands of bodies dumped by the regime.
		In October, forensic experts digging for evidence against Saddam carried out their first full exhumation of a mass grave filled with the skeletons of scores of women and children, many shot in the back of the head.
	www.benadorassociates.com /pf.php?id=10074 (468 words)

	The Investigation of Potential Mass Grave Locations for the Tulsa Race Riot
		If victims of the riot were to be placed in a mass grave in the Newblock Park area, this sand bar of the Arkansas River adjacent to the park could have served as a staging area for the event.
		Each of the three potential mass grave locations was also sketched and a grid imposed over the area to be examined.
		In the spring of 1999, an eyewitness was found to the digging of a mass grave at Oaklawn Cemetery.
	www.tulsareparations.org /MassGrave.htm (5790 words)

	The Detection of Sixteen Dead Bodies in A mass Grave in Falluja
		Eye witnesses in Falluja have claimed this morning (Wednesday, September 22) that some civilians have detected a mass grave in the north western sector of the city containing the bodies of sixteen people of foreign appearance.
		The witnesses have informed the correspondent of the German News Agency that the inhabitants of that area have detected a grave this morning at 11 a.m.
		An eye witness has said that the grave was detected when the local people have smelled a bad odour in the surrounding which urged them to dig up the place in order to reveal the source of the unpleasant smells.
	www.albasrah.net /images/3loj/mass-grave-us-soldiers.htm (636 words)

	CNN.com - Bosnian mass grave exhumed - October 2, 2001
		The grave, near the site of the worst massacre since World War II at Srebrenica, is believed to contain the bodies of Muslims killed during the 1992 to 1995 Bosnian war.
		The dig comes a day after the commission had finished exhuming another mass grave in a nearby wooded area, collecting bags full of the remains of 250 people.
		The commission analyses the DNA of remains found at mass graves in an attempt to match their genetic information with people who are still missing relatives.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/10/02/srebrenica.grave (235 words)

	Turks.US Daily News - New Muslims Mass Grave Unearthed In Bosnia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some 43 bodies were exhumed from the mass grave near the town of Vlasenica, 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Sarajevo, stressed Amor Masovic, head of the Bosnian Muslim commission for missing people.
		This is the largest mass grave discovered in the area, he said, noting that the town's 1,100 Muslims were still listed as missing, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
		The mass grave was found in the eastern village of Kamenica, near the site of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, an official said.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20030605185844543 (474 words)

	Ya Libnan \| Mass graves in backyard of Syria's intelligence \| Live News from Lebanon
		Residents of the eastern Bekaa Valley town of Anjar, found the grave containing the 26 bodies last week, the official said on condition of anonymity, because he was unauthorized to speak to the media.
		The discovery of the mass grave shocked Lebanon and once again Syria was under the spotlight.
		Aad called for an international investigation into the mass graves and other killings allegedly carried out while Syrian troops were in Lebanon.
	yalibnan.com /site/archives/2005/12/mass_grave_in_b.php (818 words)

	200 Kurdish babies found in mass grave near Kirkuk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		London (KurdishMedia.com) 04 June 2003: A mass grave containing the remains of 200 Kurdish children has been discovered in the liberated Kurdish city of Kirkuk, reported the KDP Arabic daily, Al-Taakhi.
		However, this mass grave was different from other mass graves discovered since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s terrorist regime since it contained the remains of 200 babies, victims of the repression of the Kurdish uprising in 1991," Al-Taakhi noted.
		It was also reported in the local media that an adult female person had also been found in the mass grave.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=3953 (183 words)

	12-2-02-new-mass-grave-in-kurdistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On February 8, 2002, a mass grave was discovered inside an old Iraqi military Camp in Sardaw in the outskirts of Sulaimanya province in Iraqi Kurdistan.
		Each time a new mass grave is discovered, thousands of people go to the site of the grave to find out if any of their relatives are amongst them.
		The discovery of this new mass grave is additional evidence of Saddam Hussein and his regime's crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /kurdistanobserve/12-2-02-new-mass-grave-in-kurdistan.html (758 words)

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