Iraq paramilitaries find mass grave of hundreds executed by ISIS
An Iraqi forensic worker excavates human remains in a mass grave, believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by ISIS militants when they overran. (File photo: AP)
AFP, Baghdad Saturday, 11 March 2017
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Iraqi paramilitary forces announced Saturday that they had discovered a mass grave at Badush prison near Mosul containing the remains of hundreds of people executed by ISIS.
ISIS reportedly killed up to 600 people after seizing the jail in 2014, and was also said to have held hundreds of kidnapped women from Iraq’s Yazidi minority at the facility.
The Iraqi military said that forces from the Hashed al-Shaabi -- an umbrella group of pro-government forces that are dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias -- were among the units that recaptured the prison from the extremists.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2017/03/11/Iraq-paramilitaries-say-mass-grave-of-hundreds-found-.html
