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Mass Grave Discovered in Iraq

HeadlineJul 08, 2011

In Iraq, a massive grave containing some 900 corpses has been uncovered near the central Iraqi city of Diwaniyah. The bodies are believed to belong to Kurds killed by Saddam Hussein’s regime during the 1980s, when he was backed by the U.S. government.

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